We currently have 2 base64 coders: one in AK, another in LibWeb for a
"forgiving" implementation. ECMA-262 has an upcoming proposal which will
require a third implementation.
Instead, let's use the base64 implementation that is used by Node.js and
recommended by the upcoming proposal. It handles forgiving decoding as
well.
Our users of AK's implementation should be fine with the forgiving
implementation. The AK impl originally had naive forgiving behavior, but
that was removed solely for performance reasons.
Using http://mattmahoney.net/dc/enwik8.zip (100MB unzipped) as a test,
performance of our old home-grown implementations vs. the simdutf
implementation (on Linux x64):
Encode Decode
AK base64 0.226s 0.169s
LibWeb base64 N/A 1.244s
simdutf 0.161s 0.047s
This is a fetching AO and is only used by LibWeb in the context of fetch
tasks. Move it to LibWeb with other fetch methods.
The main reason for this is that it requires the use of other LibWeb AOs
such as the forgiving Base64 decoder and MIME sniffing. These AOs aren't
available within LibURL.
This URL library ends up being a relatively fundamental base library of
the system, as LibCore depends on LibURL.
This change has two main benefits:
* Moving AK back more towards being an agnostic library that can
be used between the kernel and userspace. URL has never really fit
that description - and is not used in the kernel.
* URL _should_ depend on LibUnicode, as it needs punnycode support.
However, it's not really possible to do this inside of AK as it can't
depend on any external library. This change brings us a little closer
to being able to do that, but unfortunately we aren't there quite
yet, as the code generators depend on LibCore.
The Fetch spec unfortunately will cause a name clash between the Request
concept and the Request JS object - both cannot live in the Web::Fetch
namespace, and WrapperGenerator generally assumes `Web::<Name>` for
things living in the `<Name>/` subdirectory, so let's instead move infra
code into its own namespace - it already sits in a (sub-)subdirectory
anyway.
