By doing that we avoid doing separate allocation for each such vector,
which was really expensive on js heavy websites. For example this change
helps to get EC allocation down from ~17% to ~2% on Google Maps. This
comes at cost of adding extra complexity to custom execution context
allocator, because EC no longer has fixed size and we need to maintain
a list of buckets.
This is better because:
- Better data locality
- Allocate vector for registers+constants+locals+arguments in one go
instead of allocating two vectors separately
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.
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
