in preparation of the introduction of ES6 'symbols' (aka private/unique names).
The SymbolTable became the StringTable. I also made sure to adapt all comments. The only remaining use of the term "symbol" (other than unrelated uses in the parser and such) is now 'NewSymbol' in the API and the 'V8.KeyedLoadGenericSymbol' counter, changing which might break embedders.
The one functional change in this CL is that I removed the former 'empty_string' constant, since it is redundant given the 'empty_symbol' constant that we also had (and both were used inconsistently).
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When an array index (in an array access) is a simple "expression + constant", just embed the constant in the array access operation so that the full index expression is (potentially) no longer used and its live range can be much shorter.
This is effective in conjunction with array bounds check removal (otherwise the index is anyway used in the check).
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As a special case, for checks on index expressions with the form (expr + constant) if a smaller constant is checked later in the DT also eliminate the check.
Finally, if a larger constant is checked later in the same BB do the more general check (larger constant) earlier instead of the less general one.
This will not cause useless deoptimizations because, since we are in the same BB, all the checks would have been executed anyway.
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Better support for 'polymorphic' JS and external arrays
Allow keyed store/load stubs to switch between external array and fast JS arrays without forcing a state transition to the generic stub.
There CL consists of two pieces of functionality. First, code stubs for fast element arrays don't immediately transition to the MEGAMORPHIC state when there's a map mismatch. Second, two ICs are cached per map for fast elements, the MONOMORPHIC version, and a new MEGAMORPHIC version that handles two or more different maps and dispatches to shared stubs to perform the array operation.
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Allow keyed store/load stubs to switch between external array and fast JS arrays without forcing a state transition to the generic stub.
There CL consists of two pieces of functionality. First, code stubs for fast element arrays don't immediately transition to the MEGAMORPHIC state when there's a map mismatch. Second, two ICs are cached per map for fast elements, the MONOMORPHIC version, and a new MEGAMORPHIC version that handles two or more different maps. Currently, the only array types supported by the MEGAMORPHIC stub are fast elements for objects and JSArrays.
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Worth mentioning:
- Specialized versions of pixel array and store/loads inside the generic stubs have been removed, since to have parity for all external arrays, 8 different versions would have to be inlined/checked.
- There's a new constant in v8.h for external arrays with pixel array elements.
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If the instance of is performed against what is beliwed to be a constant global function inline the instance of check and have the call to the instanceof stub in deferred code. The inlined check will be patched by the instanceof stub when called from deferred code. This is indicated by the lithium instruction LInstanceOfKnownGlobal.
To help the patching the delta from the return address to the patch site is placed just below the return address in the edi slot of the pushad/popad ares. This is safe because the edi register (which is pushed last) is a temporary for the lithium instruction.
As the instanceof stub can call other JavaScript an additional marking for saving all double registers have been added.
Also tweaked the instanceof stub to produce true/false objects instead of 0/1 for the case with deferred code.
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Change more functions used by the Compiler class to have a uniform
interface: they get passed as argument an input/output pointer to a
CompilationInfo that they mutate if they succeed, and they return a
flag telling whether they succeeded.
Also, remove some unnecessary timers.
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Contextual load requires only a map check followed by a cell hole
check so we can generate pretty compact code for that. The fact that
we have inlined code is marked by mov ecx, offset instruction after
the IC call. Inlining is only enabled inside loops and in non-builtin
functions.
The generated code size increase is about 3%. This descreased the
pc-to-code cache hit rate in some of the benchmarks that trigger
GC. To compensate we now have 4 times as much entries in the cache.
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the code object's instructions.
This allows us to find a code object using just the pc. This approach
uses a cache (PcToCodeCache) to make sure we don't continuously have
to iterate heap pages.
This change eliminates the need for cooking and uncooking of stack frames.
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r5147 wrongly assumed that a code cache for a slow case map is always empty.
This patch solves this: whenever we attempt to add a stub to a map's code cache
we check that this map is cached. If it is we give the object its own copy
of the map and only then modify the map.
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Object model changes
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New fixed_cow_array_map is used for the elements array of a JSObject
to mark it as COW. The JSObject's map and other fields are not
affected. The JSObject's map still has the "fast elements" bit set. It
means we can do only the receiver map check in keyed loads and the
receiver and the elements map checks in keyed stores. So introducing
COW arrays doesn't hurt performance of these operations. But note that
the elements map check is necessary in all mutating operations because
the "has fast elements" bit now means "has fast elements for reading".
EnsureWritableFastElements can be used in runtime functions to perform
the necessary lazy copying.
Generated code changes
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Generic keyed load is updated to only do the receiver map check (this
could have been done earlier). FastCloneShallowArrayStub now has two
modes: clone elements and use COW elements. AssertFastElements macro
is added to check the elements when necessary. The custom call IC
generators for Array.prototype.{push,pop} are updated to avoid going
to the slow case (and patching the IC) when calling the builtin should
work.
COW enablement
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Currently we only put shallow and simple literal arrays in the COW
mode. This is done by the parser.
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