1500927 - Add copy-free jsstring support to perfecthash.py

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XPCOM, enhancement)

Description

[:Nika Layzell (ni? for response)]

This is needed for bug 1500926, and could generally be advantageous for XPIDL as well, to avoid copies when looking up xpcom interfaces by name.

The approach I took was to split the codegen logic out into a helper object. This object has separate methods for generating each piece, and has separate methods for generating a WebIDL lookup method and a bytes lookup method.

If a component needs both the native string and JSString lookup methods, it will have 2 copies of the bases table. Fortunately these tables are usually fairly small for our code at the moment. If it proves to be an issue, we can perform a refactoring to avoid this restriction.

Comment 1

[:Nika Layzell (ni? for response)]

Attachment: Bug 1500927 - Add copy-free jsstring support to perfecthash.py,

This is needed for bug 1500926. It takes the approach of taking a JSFlatString
and using AutoAssertCannotGC to read the memory directly from the JS heap.
This lets us avoid re-encoding strings when performing lookups, which can be
advantageous.

Only ASCII strings are supported by this handler, and wide strings are hashed
as though they contain only values under 0x7f. This is OK as invalid keys to
perfecthash may return any hashtable entry.

Comment 2

[:Nika Layzell (ni? for response)]

Attachment: RegisterBindings.cpp

This is an example generated file from bug 1500926

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/fbb568aa121e
Add copy-free jsstring support to perfecthash.py, r=bzbarsky

Comment 4

[Raul Gurzau (:RaulGurzau)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/fbb568aa121e