V8 3.20.9 enforces that external pointers are aligned on a two-byte
boundary.
We cannot portably guarantee that for the source code strings that
tools/js2c.py generates so simply stop using String::NewExternal()
altogether (and by extension String::ExternalAsciiStringResource).
Fixes the following run-time assert:
FATAL ERROR: v8::String::NewExternal() Pointer is not aligned
This incarnation of macros.py is only used to disable the (d)trace
macros. Rename it so it better reflects its purpose. A new macros.py
will be added in a follow-up commit.
It will be confusing if later on we add Buffer#dispose(), and smalloc is
its own cpp api anyways. So instead create a new require('smalloc') to
expose the previous Buffer.alloc/dispose methods, and expose copyOnto
and kMaxLength as well.
Other changes:
* Added documentation and additional tests.
* smalloc::CopyOnto has changed from using assert() to throwing errors
on bad argument values because it is not exposed to the user.
* Minor style fixes.
This is a big commit that touches just about every file in the src/
directory. The V8 API has changed in significant ways. The most
important changes are:
* Binding functions take a const v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<T>& argument
rather than a const v8::Arguments& argument.
* Binding functions return void rather than v8::Handle<v8::Value>. The
return value is returned with the args.GetReturnValue().Set() family
of functions.
* v8::Persistent<T> no longer derives from v8::Handle<T> and no longer
allows you to directly dereference the object that the persistent
handle points to. This means that the common pattern of caching
oft-used JS values in a persistent handle no longer quite works,
you first need to reconstruct a v8::Local<T> from the persistent
handle with the Local<T>::New(isolate, persistent) factory method.
A handful of (internal) convenience classes and functions have been
added to make dealing with the new API a little easier.
The most visible one is node::Cached<T>, which wraps a v8::Persistent<T>
with some template sugar. It can hold arbitrary types but so far it's
exclusively used for v8::Strings (which was by far the most commonly
cached handle type.)
Now that Buffer instantiation has improved, the SlabAllocator is an
unnecessary layer of complexity preventing further performance
optimizations.
Currently there is a small performance loss with very small stream
requests, but this will soon be addressed.
smalloc is a simple utility for quickly allocating external memory onto
js objects. This will be used to centralize how memory is managed in
node, and will become the backer for Buffers. So in the future crypto's
SlabBuffer, stream's SlabAllocator will be removed.
Note on the js API: because no arguments are optional the order of
arguments have been placed to match their cc counterparts as closely as
possible.
Split `tls.js` into `_tls_legacy.js`, containing legacy
`createSecurePair` API, and `_tls_wrap.js` containing new code based on
`tls_wrap` binding.
Remove tests that are no longer useful/valid.
Add a watchdog class which executes a timer in a separate event loop in
a separate thread that will terminate v8 execution if it expires.
Add timeout argument to functions in vm module which use the watchdog
if a non-zero timeout is specified.
This change shouldn't have landed in the stable branch. It's a feature,
not a bug fix.
This reverts commit 58f93ffc4a.
This reverts commit 8c8ebe49b6.
This reverts commit ba0f7b8066.
This reverts commit 21f3c5c367.
Commit 3d67f89 ("fix generation of v8 constants on freebsd") is an
unfortunate victim of this rollback.
Revert "dtrace: fix generation of v8 constants on freebsd"
Revert "dtrace: More style"
Revert "dtrace: Make D style more D-ish"
Revert "dtrace: x64 ustack helper"
Revert "dtrace: fix style in ustack helper"
Revert "dtrace: SeqAsciiString was renamed to SeqOneByteString in v8"
This reverts commit 3d67f89552.
This reverts commit 321b8eec08.
This reverts commit 38df9d51a2.
This reverts commit f9afb3f010.
This reverts commit 13296e4b13.
This reverts commit 3b715edda9.
Improvements:
* floating point operations are approx 4x's faster
* Now write quiet NaN's
* all read/write on floating point now done in C, so no more need for
lib/buffer_ieee754.js
* float values have more accurate min/max value checks
* add additional benchmarks for buffers read/write
* created benchmark/_bench_timer.js which is a simple library that
can be included into any benchmark and provides an intelligent tracker
for sync and async tests
* add benchmarks for DataView set methods
* add checks and tests to make sure offset is greater than 0
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.
