The special empty value (that we use for array holes, Optional<Value>
when empty and a few other other placeholder/sentinel tasks) still
exists, but you now create one via JS::js_special_empty_value() and
check for it with Value::is_special_empty_value().
The main idea here is to make it very unlikely to accidentally create an
unexpected special empty value.
Previously, `String.prototype.split()` caused the construction of a
temporary StringObject when a string primitive was passed as an
argument, solely to perform a Symbol.split lookup. This change allows
skipping that allocation by looking directly into the prototype of
primitive values.
As a result, we can avoid ~200000 StringObject allocations in a single
test from the Speedometer 2 benchmark.
Co-Authored-By: Andreas Kling <andreas@ladybird.org>
Lazily coercing might have made sense in the past, but since hashing
and comparing requires the `PropertyKey` to be coerced, and since a
`PropertyKey` will be used to index into a hashmap 99% of the time,
which will hash the `PropertyKey` and use it in comparisons, the
extra complexity and branching produced by lazily coercing has
become more trouble than it is worth.
Remove the lazy coercions, which then also neatly allows us to
switch to a `Variant`-based implementation.
Resulting in a massive rename across almost everywhere! Alongside the
namespace change, we now have the following names:
* JS::NonnullGCPtr -> GC::Ref
* JS::GCPtr -> GC::Ptr
* JS::HeapFunction -> GC::Function
* JS::CellImpl -> GC::Cell
* JS::Handle -> GC::Root
