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Benedikt Meurer f11ba854e5 [map] Support in-place field representation changes.
This adds a new flag --modify-field-representation-inplace (enabled by
default), which lets the runtime perform field representation changes
for Smi to Tagged or for HeapObject to Tagged in-place instead of
creating new maps and marking the previous map tree as deprecated.

That means we create (a lot) fewer Maps and DescriptorArrays in the
beginning and also need to self-heal fewer objects later (migrating
off the deprecated maps). In TurboFan we just take the "field owner
dependency" whenever we use the field representation, which is very
similar to what we already do for the field types. That means if we
change the representation of a field that we used in optimized code,
we will simply deoptimize that code and have TurboFan potentially
later optimize it again with the new field representation.

On the Speedometer2/ElmJS-TodoMVC test, this reduces the total execution
time from around 415ms to around 352ms, which corresponds to a **15%**
improvement. The overall Speedometer2 score improves from around 74.1
to around 78.3 (on local runs with content_shell), corresponding to a
**5.6%** improvement here. 🎉

On the CNN desktop browsing story, it seems that we reduce map space
utilization/fragmentation by about 4-5%. But since we allocate a lot
less (fewer Maps and DescriptorArrays) we also significantly change
the GC timing, which heavily influences the results here. So take this
with a grain of salt. 🤷

Note: For Double fields, this doesn't change anything, meaning they
still create new maps and deprecate the previous map trees.

Bug: v8:8749, v8:8865, v8:9114
Change-Id: Ibd70efcb59be982863905663dbfaa89aa5b31e14
Cq-Include-Trybots: luci.chromium.try:linux-rel,win7-rel
Doc: http://bit.ly/v8-in-place-field-representation-changes
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/1565891
Commit-Queue: Benedikt Meurer <bmeurer@chromium.org>
Commit-Queue: Igor Sheludko <ishell@chromium.org>
Auto-Submit: Benedikt Meurer <bmeurer@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Igor Sheludko <ishell@chromium.org>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#60822}
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benchmarks [test] Ensure random generator in JSTests does not use float arithmetic 2018-12-17 10:05:08 +00:00
build_overrides [tracing] Add build config for Perfetto behind a flag 2019-03-28 09:26:52 +00:00
custom_deps [build] Add common directory for custom deps 2018-06-08 19:23:02 +00:00
docs [docs] Change links from old wiki to v8.dev 2019-03-07 12:13:30 +00:00
gni [build] Compile compiler with optimizations in fast mksnapshot mode 2019-04-09 13:34:32 +00:00
include Fix build error on ARM64/Windows 2019-04-10 22:42:19 +00:00
infra Extend timeout for numfuzz by 10 minutes 2019-04-11 08:27:15 +00:00
samples Add a sample that uses the JS API to create wasm 2018-06-07 23:43:38 +00:00
src [map] Support in-place field representation changes. 2019-04-12 14:37:07 +00:00
test [map] Support in-place field representation changes. 2019-04-12 14:37:07 +00:00
testing Remove dummy files created for rolling googletest. 2018-03-27 05:55:56 +00:00
third_party [builtins] Properly mark transitioning external macros. 2019-04-11 13:03:04 +00:00
tools [test] Ignore optimization state in tests on number fuzzer 2019-04-12 12:50:55 +00:00
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.gn [test] Remove obsolete test262 archive extract 2018-03-28 13:52:15 +00:00
.vpython [tools] Correctly identify and report test crashes and infra failures 2018-10-30 15:05:40 +00:00
.ycm_extra_conf.py [ycm] Switch from gnu++11 to gnu++14 2017-11-27 07:48:21 +00:00
AUTHORS ppc: Fix incorrect ABI detection 2019-04-11 00:38:08 +00:00
BUILD.gn [heap] Skip ro-space from heap iterators, add CombinedHeapIterator. 2019-04-12 13:26:34 +00:00
ChangeLog [release] Merge ChangeLog back to master 2018-12-07 15:41:59 +00:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md Explicitly state that the Chromium Code of Conduct also applies to V8 2016-03-02 09:51:24 +00:00
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PRESUBMIT.py Revert "[torque] Temporarily disable torque format check to pass presubmit" 2019-02-20 14:07:17 +00:00
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snapshot_toolchain.gni Make win/cross build work better when targeting arm64 on macOS hosts. 2019-03-22 18:30:23 +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://v8.dev/docs

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 at v8.dev/docs/contribute.