Previously, when a loop detected an unwind of type ScopeType::Function
(which means a return statement was executed inside of the loop), it
would just return undefined. This set the VM's last_value to undefined,
when it should have been the returned value. This patch makes all loop
statements return the appropriate value in the above case.
While initialization common runtime objects like functions, prototypes,
etc, we don't really care about tracking transitions for each and every
property added to them.
This patch puts objects into a "disable transitions" mode while we call
initialize() on them. After that, adding more properties will cause new
transitions to be generated and added to the chain.
This gives a ~10% speed-up on test-js. :^)
When reifying a shape transition chain, look for the nearest previous
shape in the transition chain that has a property table already, and
use that as the starting point.
This achieves two things:
1. We do less work when reifying property tables that already have
partial property tables earlier in the chain.
2. This enables adding properties to a shape without performing a
transition. This will be useful for initializing runtime objects
with way fewer allocations. See next patch. :^)
There's no point in trying to achieve shape sharing for global objects,
so we can simply make the shape unique from the start and avoid making
a transition chain.
Previously whenever you would ask a Shape how many properties it had,
it would reify the property table into a HashMap and use HashMap::size()
to answer the question.
This can be a huge waste of time if we don't need the property table for
anything else, so this patch implements property count tracking in a
separate integer member of Shape. :^)
Since blocks can't be strict by themselves, it makes no sense for them
to store whether or not they are strict. Strict-ness is now stored in
the Program and FunctionNode ASTNodes. Fixes issue #3641
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 :^)
Okay, my vision here is improving. Interpreter should be a thing that
executes an AST. The scope stack is irrelevant to the VM proper,
so we can move that to the Interpreter. Same with execute_statement().
This patch moves the exception state, call stack and scope stack from
Interpreter to VM. I'm doing this to help myself discover what the
split between Interpreter and VM should be, by shuffling things around
and seeing what falls where.
With these changes, we no longer have a persistent lexical environment
for the current global object on the Interpreter's call stack. Instead,
we push/pop that environment on Interpreter::run() enter/exit.
Since it should only be used to find the global "this", and not for
variable storage (that goes directly into the global object instead!),
I had to insert some short-circuiting when walking the environment
parent chain during variable lookup.
Note that this is a "stepping stone" commit, not a final design.
Empty string is extremely common and we can avoid a lot of heap churn
by simply caching one in the VM. Primitive strings are immutable anyway
so there is no observable behavior change outside of fewer collections.
