Every function call allocates an ExecutionContext with a trailing array
of Values for registers, locals, constants, and arguments. Previously,
the constructor would initialize all slots to js_special_empty_value(),
but constant slots were then immediately overwritten by the interpreter
copying in values from the Executable before execution began.
To eliminate this redundant initialization, we rearrange the layout from
[registers | constants | locals] to [registers | locals | constants].
This groups registers and locals together at the front, allowing us to
initialize only those slots while leaving constant slots uninitialized
until they're populated with their actual values.
This reduces the per-call initialization cost from O(registers + locals
+ constants) to O(registers + locals).
Also tightens up the types involved (size_t -> u32) and adds VERIFYs to
guard against overflow when computing the combined slot counts, and to
ensure the total fits within the 29-bit operand index field.
Instead of having ExecutionContext track function names separately,
we give FunctionObject a virtual function that returns an appropriate
name string for use in call stacks.
Instead of letting every [[Call]] implementation allocate an
ExecutionContext, we now make that a responsibility of the caller.
The main point of this exercise is to allow the Call instruction
to write function arguments directly into the callee ExecutionContext
instead of copying them later.
This makes function calls significantly faster:
- 10-20% faster on micro-benchmarks (depending on argument count)
- 4% speedup on Kraken
- 2% speedup on Octane
- 5% speedup on JetStream
This is better because:
- Better data locality
- Allocate vector for registers+constants+locals+arguments in one go
instead of allocating two vectors separately
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
The main motivation behind this is to remove JS specifics of the Realm
from the implementation of the Heap.
As a side effect of this change, this is a bit nicer to read than the
previous approach, and in my opinion, also makes it a little more clear
that this method is specific to a JavaScript Realm.
