This adds support to the KeyedLoadIC to ignore out of bounds accesses
for Strings and return undefined instead. We add a dedicated bit to the
Smi handler to encode the OOB state and have TurboFan generate appropriate
code for that case as well. This is mostly useful when programs
accidentially access past the length of a string, which was observed and
fixed for example in Babel recently, see
https://github.com/babel/babel/pull/6589
for details. The idea is to also extend this mechanism to Arrays and
maybe other receivers, as reading beyond the length is also often used
in jQuery and other popular libraries.
Note that this is considered a mitigation for a performance cliff and
not a general optimization of OOB accesses. These should still be
avoided and handled properly instead.
This seems to further improve the babel test on the web-tooling-benchmark
by around 1%, because the OOB access no longer turns the otherwise
MONOMORPHIC access into MEGAMORPHIC state.
Bug: v8:6936, v8:7014
Change-Id: I9df03304e056d7001a65da8e9621119f8e9bb55b
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/744022
Commit-Queue: Benedikt Meurer <bmeurer@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Camillo Bruni <cbruni@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Leszek Swirski <leszeks@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Benedikt Meurer <bmeurer@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#49049}
