Javascript:SpiderMonkey:OdinMonkey: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 16:58, 22 January 2014

Move code generation into the parallel compilation tasks (bug 959263)
Optimize constant-additions in masked heap accessed: bug 915157
Standardize and implement SIMD extensions to JS (bug 894105) and then incorporate into asm.js
Land experimental SharedArrayBuffer (pref'd off, bug 933001) and use this to add experimental pthreads support to Emscripten and evaluate on threaded codebases in preparation for a standards proposal.

Mitigate 32-bit OOM problems: (bug 865959)
Record enough information at compile time so that asm.js functions show up in:
- the builtin FF profiler (bug 947996)
- Error.stack
Add && and || to asm.js to avoid sub-optimal control flow (bug 919052).
Add Math.min/max to asm.js standard math library (they have more optimal implementations than you can express with just ternary)
Add missing math constants (bug 878488)
ArrayBuffer.prototype.resize (bug 927182): to allow growable heap
Fully optimize calls into (bug 962641) and out of (bug 882399) asm.js
Remove async-script requirement for asm.js caching: (bug 961057)

Further improve load-time:
- Start general JS parsing before the entire JS script has completed downloading so that asm.js compilation can overlap (and we'd be justified in doing all script parsing off the main thread)
- asm.js parser: Avoid building an intermediate parse tree; type check during recursive descent bug 854061
Compress more than just the source in asm.js cache entries
Further improve heap access performance : bug 870743, bug 897425
Improve x86/ARM asm.js-to-asm.js ABI : bug 861785
Extend the asm.js signal handler tricks to:
- Remove stack overflow checks
- Remove idiv branching
- Remove double-to-int conversion branching (see also bug 818750)

Effectively support 'goto' (even computed 'goto') by formalizing a pattern of while+switch that gets compiled as if it was goto
Extend asm.js to better support dynamically linking asm.js modules (a mutable, callable array argument to asm.js module, like the PLT)
Add enough try/catch to asm.js to allow compilation of C++ exceptions using the zero-cost implementation strategy
Add DataView to avoid the alignment mask on asm.js heap accesses (this is mostly a problem of DataView being slow in all browsers)

ArrayBuffer.prototype.discard (bug 855669): to allow madvise(DONTNEED)
Typed Objects: (Typed Objects)
- This feature comes with float32/uint64/int64 value types, which would be useful as scalar types in asm.js.
- Formalize Typed Object "class declarations" in asm.js which could make asm.js a target for JVM/CLR/TypeScript (and allow these languages to reuse the builtin JS GC)
FunctionPromise: bug 854627
Add "AsmFunction" constructor that threw informative exception on validation failure.: (bug 952847)

Credit to John Howard

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 * Add missing math constants ({{bug|878488}})
 * ArrayBuffer.prototype.resize ({{bug|927182}}): to allow growable heap
-* Fully optimize calls into and out of asm.js : {{bug|882399}}, {{bug|886411}}
+* Fully optimize calls into ({{bug|962641}}) and out of ({{bug|882399}}) asm.js
 * Remove async-script requirement for asm.js caching: ({{bug|961057}})