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Benedikt Meurer 51274d3c99 [turbofan] Introduce the notion of context-sensitivity for JS operators.
This change adds predicates to check whether a given JavaScript operator
needs the "current context" or if any surrounding context (including the
"native context") does it. For example JSAdd doesn't ever need the
current context, but actually only the native context. In the
BytecodeGraphBuilder we use this predicate to check whether a given
operator needs the current context, and if not, we just pass in the
native context.

Doing so we improve the performance on the benchmarks given in the
tracking bug significantly, and go from something around

  arrayMap: 476 ms.
  arrayFilter: 312 ms.
  arrayEvery: 241 ms.
  arraySome: 152 ms.

to

  arrayMap: 377 ms.
  arrayFilter: 296 ms.
  arrayEvery: 191 ms.
  arraySome: 91 ms.

which is an up to 40% improvement. So for idiomatic modern JavaScript
which uses higher order functions quite a lot, not just the builtins
provided by the JSVM, this is going to improve peak performance
noticably.

This also makes it possible to completely eliminate all the allocations
in the aliased sloppy arguments example

```js
function foo(a) { return arguments.length; }
```

concretely we don't allocate the function context anymore and we also
don't allocate the arguments object anymore (the JSStackCheck was the
reason why we did this in the past, because it was holding on to the
current context, which also kept the allocation for the arguments
alive).

Bug: v8:6200, v8:8060
Change-Id: I1db56d00d6b510ce6337608c0fff16af96e95eef
Design-Document: bit.ly/v8-turbofan-context-sensitive-js-operators
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/1267176
Reviewed-by: Georg Neis <neis@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Benedikt Meurer <bmeurer@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#56441}
2018-10-08 11:33:56 +00:00
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V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262.

V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.

V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

V8 Project page: https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki

Getting the Code

Checkout depot tools, and run

    fetch v8

This will checkout V8 into the directory v8 and fetch all of its dependencies. To stay up to date, run

    git pull origin
    gclient sync

For fetching all branches, add the following into your remote configuration in .git/config:

    fetch = +refs/branch-heads/*:refs/remotes/branch-heads/*
    fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

Contributing

Please follow the instructions mentioned on the V8 wiki.