Closed Bug 922272 Opened 11 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Handle jQuery polymorphic selector argument better

Categories

(Core :: JavaScript Engine: JIT, defect, P3)

defect

Tracking

()

RESOLVED FIXED
Performance Impact high
Tracking Status
platform-rel --- +

People

(Reporter: jandem, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: perf, Whiteboard: [platform-rel-jQuery])

jQuery.fn.init is the main jQuery function. It starts like this (v1.6.4): if ( !selector ) { return this; } // Handle $(DOMElement) if ( selector.nodeType ) { ... } if ( selector === "body" && !context && document.body ) { ... } // Handle HTML strings if ( typeof selector === "string" ) { ... } The problem is that jQuery itself calls this function and passes (1) document and (2) a function as selector argument. Then we run the benchmark and selector is a string 100% of the time. If we could compile this function and assume selector is a string, we could make most of these checks a lot faster (optimize away the typeof selector === "string", if (selector.nodeType) etc). Usually we start gathering type information when the script is Baseline compiled so we wouldn't have this problem I think. Unfortunately this function is a constructor so we collect type information immediately (definite properties analysis).
Hmm.... jQuery.fn.init a constructor because of this bit: jQuery = function( selector, context ) { // The jQuery object is actually just the init constructor 'enhanced' return new jQuery.fn.init( selector, context, rootjQuery ); }, ?
Blocks: 922071
Well, the 'return this' early in the script means there won't be any definite properties. A lame way to handle this would be to sniff for that bytecode pattern early in the script before any other uses of 'this' and don't bother analyzing (or baseline compiling) in that case. An alternative would be to allow the analysis to run without baseline compiling the script first (and only baseline compile if definite properties were found), though that is tricky since the bytecode type map (which will be needed) is currently stored on the baseline script.
Blocks: 940815
Blocks: 876846
Whiteboard: [platform-rel-jQuery]
platform-rel: --- → ?
platform-rel: ? → +
Rank: 37
Is this still something we'd like to do, Jan?
Flags: needinfo?(jdemooij)
We should be doing much better here now because our ICs now know how to optimize this part in comment 0 when selector is a string: if ( selector.nodeType ) { I'm working on other IC optimizations atm, let's keep this open a bit longer and remeasure later.
Blocks: sm-js-perf
Component: JavaScript Engine → JavaScript Engine: JIT
Flags: needinfo?(jdemooij)
Priority: -- → P3
Keywords: perf
Whiteboard: [platform-rel-jQuery] → [platform-rel-jQuery][qf]
Kannan, what to do with this bug also?
Flags: needinfo?(kvijayan)
p1.
Flags: needinfo?(kvijayan)
Whiteboard: [platform-rel-jQuery][qf] → [platform-rel-jQuery][qf:p1]
(In reply to Jan de Mooij [:jandem] from comment #4) > We should be doing much better here now because our ICs now know how to > optimize this part in comment 0 when selector is a string: > > if ( selector.nodeType ) { > > I'm working on other IC optimizations atm, let's keep this open a bit longer > and remeasure later. Is it possible to remeasure now?
Flags: needinfo?(jdemooij)
This doesn't seem like it will be fixed by 57 so I moving it to P2 for post 57 work.
Whiteboard: [platform-rel-jQuery][qf:p1] → [platform-rel-jQuery][qf:p2]
Jan have you remeasured this?
Whiteboard: [platform-rel-jQuery][qf:p2] → [platform-rel-jQuery][perf:p1]
Whiteboard: [platform-rel-jQuery][perf:p1] → [platform-rel-jQuery][qf:p1]
Whiteboard: [platform-rel-jQuery][qf:p1] → [platform-rel-jQuery][qf:i60][qf:p1]
Whiteboard: [platform-rel-jQuery][qf:i60][qf:p1] → [platform-rel-jQuery][qf:f60][qf:p1]
As mentioned in comment 4, we should do much better here nowadays. It has been 4 years and we don't have a testcase for this particular bug, so I think I'll just close this and we can file new bugs if we see more slowness here.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(jdemooij)
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Performance Impact: --- → P1
Whiteboard: [platform-rel-jQuery][qf:f60][qf:p1] → [platform-rel-jQuery]
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