Instead of splitting the postfix variants into ToNumeric + Inc/Dec,
we now have dedicated PostfixIncrement and PostfixDecrement instructions
that handle both outputs in one go.
This patch moves us away from the accumulator-based bytecode format to
one with explicit source and destination registers.
The new format has multiple benefits:
- ~25% faster on the Kraken and Octane benchmarks :^)
- Fewer instructions to accomplish the same thing
- Much easier for humans to read(!)
Because this change requires a fundamental shift in how bytecode is
generated, it is quite comprehensive.
Main implementation mechanism: generate_bytecode() virtual function now
takes an optional "preferred dst" operand, which allows callers to
communicate when they have an operand that would be optimal for the
result to go into. It also returns an optional "actual dst" operand,
which is where the completion value (if any) of the AST node is stored
after the node has "executed".
One thing of note that's new: because instructions can now take locals
as operands, this means we got rid of the GetLocal instruction.
A side-effect of that is we have to think about the temporal deadzone
(TDZ) a bit differently for locals (GetLocal would previously check
for empty values and interpret that as a TDZ access and throw).
We now insert special ThrowIfTDZ instructions in places where a local
access may be in the TDZ, to maintain the correct behavior.
There are a number of progressions and regressions from this test:
A number of async generator tests have been accidentally fixed while
converting the implementation to the new bytecode format. It didn't
seem useful to preserve bugs in the original code when converting it.
Some "does eval() return the correct completion value" tests have
regressed, in particular ones related to propagating the appropriate
completion after control flow statements like continue and break.
These are all fairly obscure issues, and I believe we can continue
working on them separately.
The net test262 result is a progression though. :^)
This commit un-deprecates DeprecatedString, and repurposes it as a byte
string.
As the null state has already been removed, there are no other
particularly hairy blockers in repurposing this type as a byte string
(what it _really_ is).
This commit is auto-generated:
$ xs=$(ack -l \bDeprecatedString\b\|deprecated_string AK Userland \
Meta Ports Ladybird Tests Kernel)
$ perl -pie 's/\bDeprecatedString\b/ByteString/g;
s/deprecated_string/byte_string/g' $xs
$ clang-format --style=file -i \
$(git diff --name-only | grep \.cpp\|\.h)
$ gn format $(git ls-files '*.gn' '*.gni')
When iterating over an iterable, we get back a JS object with the fields
"value" and "done".
Before this change, we've had two dedicated instructions for retrieving
the two fields: IteratorResultValue and IteratorResultDone. These had no
fast path whatsoever and just did a generic [[Get]] access to fetch the
corresponding property values.
By replacing the instructions with GetById("value") and GetById("done"),
they instantly get caching and JIT fast paths for free, making iterating
over iterables much faster. :^)
26% speed-up on this microbenchmark:
function go(a) {
for (const p of a) {
}
}
const a = [];
a.length = 1_000_000;
go(a);
This patch makes IteratorRecord an Object. Although it's not exposed to
author code, this does allow us to store it in a VM register.
Now that we can store it in a VM register, we don't need to convert it
back and forth between IteratorRecord and Object when accessing it from
bytecode.
The big win here is avoiding 3 [[Get]] accesses on every iteration step
of for..of loops. There are also a bunch of smaller efficiencies gained.
20% speed-up on this microbenchmark:
function go(a) {
for (const p of a) {
}
}
const a = [];
a.length = 1_000_000;
go(a);
This will not meaningfully affect short array literals, but it does
give us a bit of extra perf when evaluating huge array expressions like
in Kraken/imaging-darkroom.js
Until now, the unwind context stack has not been maintained by jitted
code, which meant we were unable to support the `with` statement.
This is a first step towards supporting that by making jitted code
call out to C++ to update the unwind context stack when entering/leaving
unwind contexts.
We also introduce a new "Catch" bytecode instruction that moves the
current exception into the accumulator. It's always emitted at the start
of a "catch" block.
This works by walking a backtrace until the currently executing
native executable is found, and then mapping the native address
to its bytecode instruction.
Nuke all the per-instruction bounds checking when iterating instructions
by using raw pointers instead of indexing into a ReadonlyBytes.
The interpreter loop already checks that we're in-bounds anyway.
Instead of running a big switch statement on the opcode when checking
how long an instruction is, we now simply store that in a member
variable at construction time for instant access.
This yields a 10.2% speed-up on Kraken/ai-astar :^)
This works by adding source start/end offset to every bytecode
instruction. In the future we can make this more efficient by keeping
a map of bytecode ranges to source ranges in the Executable instead,
but let's just get traces working first.
Co-Authored-By: Andrew Kaster <akaster@serenityos.org>
If we're inside of a `with` statement scope, we have to take care to
extract the correct `this` value for use in calls when calling a method
on the binding object via an Identifier instead of a MemberExpression.
This makes Vue.js work way better in the bytecode VM. :^)
Also, 1 new pass on test262.
These passes have not been shown to actually optimize any JS, and tests
have become very flaky with optimizations enabled. Until some measurable
benefit is shown, remove the optimization passes to reduce overhead of
maintaining bytecode operations and to reduce CI churn. The framework
for optimizations will live on in git history, and can be restored once
proven useful.
Using a special instruction to access global variables allows skipping
the environment chain traversal for them and going directly to the
module/global environment. Currently, this instruction only caches the
offset for bindings that belong to the global object environment.
However, there is also an opportunity to cache the offset in the global
declarative record.
This change results in a 57% increase in speed for
imaging-gaussian-blur.js in Kraken.
- Update ECMAScriptFunctionObject::function_declaration_instantiation
to initialize local variables
- Introduce GetLocal, SetLocal, TypeofLocal that will be used to
operate on local variables.
- Update bytecode generator to emit instructions for local variables
This avoids the overhead of allocating a new Array on every function
call, saving a substantial amount of time and avoiding GC thrash.
This patch only makes use of Op::Call in CallExpression. There are other
places we should codegen this op. We should also do the same for super
expression calls.
~5% speed-up on Kraken/stanford-crypto-ccm.js
Forcing every function call to allocate a new Array just to accommodate
spread parameters is not very nice, so let's start moving towards making
this a special case rather than the general (and only) case.
Since we no longer need to create or leave var environments directly
in bytecode, we can streamline the two instructions by making them
always operate on the lexical environment.
Instead of implementing this AO in bytecode, we now have an instruction
for it that simply invokes the C++ implementation.
This allows us to simplify Bytecode::Generator quite a bit by removing
all the variable scope tracking.
This uses a newly added instruction `ScheduleJump`
This instruction tells the finally proceeding it, that instead of
jumping to it's next block it should jump to the designated block.
This will make it easier to support both string types at the same time
while we convert code, and tracking down remaining uses.
One big exception is Value::to_string() in LibJS, where the name is
dictated by the ToString AO.
We have a new, improved string type coming up in AK (OOM aware, no null
state), and while it's going to use UTF-8, the name UTF8String is a
mouthful - so let's free up the String name by renaming the existing
class.
Making the old one have an annoying name will hopefully also help with
quick adoption :^)
`delete` has to operate directly on Reference Records, so this
introduces a new set of operations called DeleteByValue, DeleteVariable
and DeleteById. They operate similarly to their Get counterparts,
except they end in creating a (temporary) Reference and calling delete_
on it.
Now we emit CreateVariable and SetVariable with the appropriate
initialization/environment modes, much closer to the spec.
This makes a whole lot of things like let/const variables, function
and variable hoisting and some other things work :^)
