Both GlobalObject and LexicalEnvironment now inherit from ScopeObject,
and the VM's call frames point to a ScopeObject chain rather than just
a LexicalEnvironment chain.
This gives us much more flexibility to implement things like "with",
and also unifies some of the code paths that previously required
special handling of the global object.
There's a bunch of more cleanup that can be done in the wake of this
change, and there might be some oversights in the handling of the
"super" keyword, but this generally seems like a good architectural
improvement. :^)
This should be using the individual flag boolean properties rather than
the [[OriginalFlags]] internal slot.
Use an enumerator macro here for brevity, this will be useful for other
things as well. :^)
Instead of keeping all the HeapBlocks in one big list, we now split it
into two levels:
- Heap has a set of Allocators, each with a specific cell size.
- Allocators have two lists of blocks, "full" and "usable".
Allocating a new cell no longer has to scan the entire set of blocks,
but instead just needs to find the right allocator and then pop a cell
from its freelist. If all the blocks in the allocator are full, a new
block will be created.
Blocks are moved from the "full" to "usable" list after sweeping has
determined that they are not completely empty and not completely full.
There are certainly many ways we can improve on this. This patch is
mostly about getting the new allocator architecture in place. :^)
Each JS global object has its own "console", so it makes more sense to
store it in GlobalObject.
We'll need some smartness later to bundle up console messages from all
the different frames that make up a page later, but this works for now.
More work on decoupling the general runtime from Interpreter. The goal
is becoming clearer. Interpreter should be one possible way to execute
code inside a VM. In the future we might have other ways :^)
Taking a big step towards a world of multiple global object, this patch
adds a new JS::VM object that houses the JS::Heap.
This means that the Heap moves out of Interpreter, and the same Heap
can now be used by multiple Interpreters, and can also outlive them.
The VM keeps a stack of Interpreter pointers. We push/pop on this
stack when entering/exiting execution with a given Interpreter.
This allows us to make this change without disturbing too much of
the existing code.
There is still a 1-to-1 relationship between Interpreter and the
global object. This will change in the future.
Ultimately, the goal here is to make Interpreter a transient object
that only needs to exist while you execute some code. Getting there
will take a lot more work though. :^)
Note that in LibWeb, the global JS::VM is called main_thread_vm(),
to distinguish it from future worker VM's.
btoa() takes a byte string, so it must decode the UTF-8 argument into
a Vector<u8> before calling encode_base64.
Likewise, in atob() decode_base64 returns a byte string, so that needs
to be converted to UTF-8.
With this, `btoa(String.fromCharCode(255))` is '/w==' as it should
be, and `atob(btoa(String.fromCharCode(255))) == String.fromCharCode(255)`
remains true.
Not only is this a much nicer api (can't pass a typo'd string into the
get_well_known_symbol function), it is also a bit more performant since
there are no hashmap lookups.
With the addition of symbol keys, work can now be done on starting to
implement the well-known symbol functionality. The most important of
these well-known symbols is by far Symbol.iterator.
This patch adds IteratorPrototype, as well as ArrayIterator and
ArrayIteratorPrototype. In the future, sometime after StringIterator has
also been added, this will allow us to use Symbol.iterator directly in
for..of loops, enabling the use of custom iterator objects. Also makes
adding iterator support to native objects much easier (as will have to
be done for Map and Set, when they get added).
More work towards supporting multiple global objects. Native C++ code
now get a GlobalObject& and don't have to ask the Interpreter for it.
I've added macros for declaring and defining native callbacks since
this was pretty tedious and this makes it easier next time we want to
change any of these signatures.
This adds regex parsing/lexing, as well as a relatively empty
RegExpObject. The purpose of this patch is to allow the engine to not
get hung up on parsing regexes. This will aid in finding new syntax
errors (say, from google or twitter) without having to replace all of
their regexes first!
Includes all traps except the following: [[Call]], [[Construct]],
[[OwnPropertyKeys]].
An important implication of this commit is that any call to any virtual
Object method has the potential to throw an exception. These methods
were not checked in this commit -- a future commit will have to protect
these various method calls throughout the codebase.
The new JS::MarkupGenerator class can convert both a JS source string
and a JS Runtime Value into properly formatted HTML using the new
LibWeb System Palette css color values.
It makes more sense for this JS -> HTML process to occur in LibJS
so that it can be used elsewhere, namely Markdown code block syntax
highlighting. It also means the Browser can worry less about LibJS
implementation details.
This patch adds a GetterSetterPair object. Values can now store pointers
to objects of this type. These objects are created when using
Object.defineProperty and providing an accessor descriptor.
This commit adds the following classes: SymbolObject, SymbolConstructor,
SymbolPrototype, and Symbol. This commit does not introduce any
new functionality to the Object class, so they cannot be used as
property keys in objects.
Expression nodes can now be asked to produce a Reference. We then use
this to implement the "delete" operator without downcasting the child
node to a MemberExpression manually.
This is a special kind of byte array that clamps its values to 0...255
It will be used for HTML ImageData objects.
I made Object::put_by_index() and get_by_index() virtual for this.
We'll probably need to make non-numeric property name lookups virtual
as well, but this solves my current problem well enough.
A MarkedValueList is basically a Vector<JS::Value> that registers with
the Heap and makes sure that the stored values don't get GC'd.
Before this change, we were unsafely keeping Vector<JS::Value> in some
places, which is out-of-reach for the live reference finding logic
since Vector puts its elements on the heap by default.
We now pass all the JavaScript tests even when running with "js -g",
which does a GC on every heap allocation.
This patch replaces the old variable lookup logic with a new one based
on lexical environments.
This brings us closer to the way JavaScript is actually specced, and
also gives us some basic support for closures.
The interpreter's call stack frames now have a pointer to the lexical
environment for that frame. Each lexical environment can have a chain
of parent environments.
Before calling a Function, we first ask it to create_environment().
This gives us a new LexicalEnvironment for that function, which has the
function's lexical parent's environment as its parent. This allows
inner functions to access variables in their outer function:
function foo() { <-- LexicalEnvironment A
var x = 1;
function() { <-- LexicalEnvironment B (parent: A)
console.log(x);
}
}
If we return the result of a function expression from a function, that
new function object will keep a reference to its parent environment,
which is how we get closures. :^)
I'm pretty sure I didn't get everything right here, but it's a pretty
good start. This is quite a bit slower than before, but also correcter!
This patch adds instance, constructor and prototype classes for:
- EvalError
- InternalError
- RangeError
- ReferenceError
- SyntaxError
- TypeError
- URIError
Enumerator macros are used to reduce the amount of typing. :^)
Many other parsers call it with this name.
Also Type can be confusing in this context since the DeclarationType is
not the type (number, string, etc.) of the variables that are being
declared by the VariableDeclaration.
This patch adds JS::Shape, which implements a transition tree for our
Object class. Object property keys, prototypes and attributes are now
stored in a Shape, and each Object has a Shape.
When adding a property to an Object, we make a transition from the old
Shape to a new Shape. If we've made the same exact transition in the
past (with another Object), we reuse the same transition and both
objects may now share a Shape.
This will become the foundation of inline caching and other engine
optimizations in the future. :^)
You can now throw an expression to the nearest catcher! :^)
To support throwing arbitrary values, I added an Exception class that
sits as a wrapper around whatever is thrown. In the future it will be
a logical place to store a call stack.
You can now throw exceptions by calling Interpreter::throw_exception().
Anyone who calls ASTNode::execute() needs to check afterwards if the
Interpreter now has an exception(), and if so, stop what they're doing
and simply return.
When catching an exception, we'll first execute the CatchClause node
if present. After that, we'll execute the finalizer block if present.
This is unlikely to be completely correct, but it's a start! :^)
We can now handle scripts with if/else in LibJS. Most of the changes
are about fixing IfStatement to store the consequent and alternate node
as Statements.
Interpreter now also runs Statements, rather than running ScopeNodes.
This is pretty heavy and unoptimized, but it will do the trick for now.
Basically, Heap now has a HashTable<HandleImpl*> and you can call
JS::make_handle(T*) to construct a Handle<T> that guarantees that the
pointee will always survive GC until the Handle<T> is destroyed.
This can be used to implement arbitrary functionality, callable from
JavaScript.
To make this work, I had to change the way CallExpression passes
arguments to the callee. Instead of a HashMap<String, Value>, we now
pass an ordered list of Argument { String name; Value value; }.
This patch includes a native "print(argument)" function. :^)
This adds a basic Javascript lexer and parser. It can parse the
currently existing demo programs. More work needs to be done to
turn it into a complete parser than can parse arbitrary JS Code.
The lexer outputs tokens with preceeding whitespace and comments
in the trivia member. This should allow us to generate the exact
source code by concatenating the generated tokens.
The parser is written in a way that it always returns a complete
syntax tree. Error conditions are represented as nodes in the
tree. This simplifies the code and allows it to be used as an
early stage parser, e.g for parsing JS documents in an IDE while
editing the source code.:
Previously, we were assuming all declared variables were bound to a
block scope, now, with the addition of declaration types, we can bind
a variable to a block scope using `let`, or a function scope (the scope
of the inner-most enclosing function of a `var` declaration) using
`var`.
Objects can now be allocated via the interpreter's heap. Objects that
are allocated in this way will need to be provably reachable from at
least one of the known object graph roots.
The roots are currently determined by Heap::collect_roots().
Anything that wants be collectable garbage should inherit from Cell,
the fundamental atom of the GC heap.
This is pretty neat! :^)
I always tell people to start building things by working on the thing
that seems the most interesting right now. The most interesting thing
here was an AST + simple interpreter, so that's where we start!
There is no lexer or parser yet, we build an AST directly and then
execute it in the interpreter, producing a return value.
This seems like the start of something interesting. :^)
