Implement load and store swizzling operations. This reduces an unneeded
back and forth between types and additionally keeps the value in the
swappable type until it is swapped. This is important for correctness
when dealing with floating point, to avoid the possibility of loading
the bits of a signaling NaN (because it isn't yet swapped) into the FPU.
This additionally produces better code (comments are mine):
gcc version 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
setValue<double>:
movd %xmm0, %rax ; fp reg -> gen reg
bswapq %rax ; 64-bit byte swap
movq %rax, (%r15,%r12) ; store
Implement swizzling with compiler intrinsics and be aware of the native
endianness to correctly swap on big endian machines.
This introduces a template function to swap the bytes of a value,
and macros for the low level swap (taking advantage of gcc and msvc
intrinsics). This produces code like the following (comments are mine):
gcc version 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)
setValue<double>:
movd %xmm0, %rax ; fp reg -> gen reg
bswapq %rax ; 64-bit byte swap
movd %rax, %xmm0 ; gen reg -> fp reg
movq %xmm0, (%r15,%r12) ; store
V8 3.15 has new API functions that let you specify the Isolate. V8 and
node.js generally spend 0.5-3.5% of the time in pthread_getspecific(),
looking up the current Isolate. Avoid that overhead by making "our"
isolate global so we can pass it around. The change to the new API is
introduced in follow-up commits.
Use static_cast instead of reinterpret_cast when casting from void*
to another type.
This is mostly an aesthetic change but may help catch bugs when the
affected code is modified.
Some performance counter related functions are not available on Windows
XP and Windows Server 2003, which caused node to call a NULL pointer.
Closes#4462Closes#4511
* assert: improve support for new execution contexts (lukebayes)
* domain: use camelCase instead of snake_case (isaacs)
* domain: Do not use uncaughtException handler (isaacs)
* fs: make 'end' work with ReadStream without 'start' (Ben Noordhuis)
* https: optimize createConnection() (Ryunosuke SATO)
* buffer: speed up base64 encoding by 20% (Ben Noordhuis)
* doc: Colorize API stabilitity index headers in docs (Luke Arduini)
* net: socket.readyState corrections (bentaber)
* http: Performance enhancements for http under streams2 (isaacs)
* stream: fix to emit end event on http.ClientResponse (Shigeki Ohtsu)
* stream: fix event handler leak in readstream pipe and unpipe (Andreas Madsen)
* build: Support ./configure --tag switch (Maciej Małecki)
* repl: don't touch `require.cache` (Nathan Rajlich)
* node: Emit 'exit' event when exiting for an uncaught exception (isaacs)
While it's true that error objects have a history of getting snake_case
properties attached by the host system, it's a point of confusion to
Node users that comes up a lot. It's still 'experimental', so best to
change this sooner rather than later.
This adds a process._fatalException method which is called into from
C++ in order to either emit the 'uncaughtException' method, or emit
'error' on the active domain.
The 'uncaughtException' event is an implementation detail that it would
be nice to deprecate one day, so exposing it as part of the domain
machinery is not ideal.
Fix#4375
Remove a lot of branches from the inner loop. Speeds up buf.toString('base64')
by about 20%.
Before:
$ time out/Release/node benchmark/buffer-base64-encode.js
real 0m6.607s
user 0m5.508s
sys 0m1.088s
After:
$ time out/Release/node benchmark/buffer-base64-encode.js
real 0m5.520s
user 0m4.520s
sys 0m0.992s
When building custom `node` versions (e.g., floating features/fixes from
different versions) it's often useful to specify a custom tag which
easily identifies build when invoking `node -v`.
Introduce a way to specify this tag in `node_version.h` file or by
running `./configure --tag="<tag>"`. Insert it right after the patch
version (and before `-pre`, if build is not a release).
Closes#4452.
Remove the idle garbage collector. Its purpose was to run the garbage collector
when the application is idle but it never worked quite right. Many people have
complained over the years that with heaps > 128 MB, a node.js process never
sleeps anymore; instead, it spends nearly 100% of its CPU time trying to
collect garbage.
Back in the old days, idle GC probably was a good idea. But with V8's current
incremental collector, idle gc appears to offer no time or space benefits
whatsoever and indeed seems actively harmful. Remove it.
Fixes#3870.
Although it is not used externally by node, it is needed by upstream and Plask.
This effectively reverts:
commit 1444801374
Author: Aaron Jacobs <jacobsa@google.com>
Date: Thu Mar 15 13:26:35 2012 +1100
typed arrays: unexport SizeOfArrayElementForType()
It isn't used anywhere else, so made it an implementation detail in
v8_typed_array.cc.
Work around an issue with the glibc malloc() implementation where memory blocks
are never returned to the operating system when they are allocated with brk()
and have overlapping lifecycles.
Fixes#4283.
Dean McNamee
Ben Noordhuis
isaacs
Fedor Indutny
Scott Blomquist
Maciej Małecki