Closed Bug 995295 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Make console.trace() faster

Categories

(DevTools :: Console, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED
Firefox 31

People

(Reporter: msucan, Assigned: bzbarsky)

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(2 files, 1 obsolete file)

We had bug 762995. With console API rewrite in c++ (bug 965860) the console.trace() performance improved (see bug 920116 comment 5 and subsequent comments). However, trace() is still slow compared to the same method in Chrome.

We could make console.trace() faster by making the stacktrace property of ConsoleEvent objects a getter that is populated only the first time it is accessed.

When devtools are not open there's no perf impact - the ConsoleEvent objects are not used at all.

Instead of an array we could also make this property value an iterator object. Go through the nsIStackFrames linked-list only as far as the ConsoleEvent.stacktrace reader does. If we only read the first item, there's no point building the whole list.
> populated only the first time it is accessed

So I poked around at doing that.

The first issue is that nsIStackFrame is not threadsafe.  So we have to snapshot if we're in a worker....  I don't really see a way around that, since we have to deal with JSAPI to get info out of the stack and doing cross-thread JSAPI is not really workable.

Subject to that constraint, this should be doable.
Assignee: nobody → bzbarsky
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
> Instead of an array we could also make this property value an iterator object.

We could do that in a followup; this needs consumers to switch to iteration instead of walking the array, right?
Depends on: 920116
Note that the patch as written conflicts with bug 920116.  I'll merge once that lands.
(In reply to Boris Zbarsky [:bz] from comment #3)
> > Instead of an array we could also make this property value an iterator object.
> 
> We could do that in a followup; this needs consumers to switch to iteration
> instead of walking the array, right?

That is correct.

(In reply to Boris Zbarsky [:bz] from comment #4)
> Note that the patch as written conflicts with bug 920116.  I'll merge once
> that lands.

The patch from bug 920116 is ready to land, IIAMN. We dont have to wait for the UI work.
> The patch from bug 920116 is ready to land, IIAMN.

Right.  I'm just saying you should land it, and then I'll merge this patch on top.
Comment on attachment 8405612 [details] [diff] [review]
Make console.trace() faster when the console is closed by avoiding reification of the stack until someone actually asks for it.

Review of attachment 8405612 [details] [diff] [review]:
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::: dom/base/Console.cpp
@@ +785,5 @@
> +
> +    if (language == nsIProgrammingLanguage::JAVASCRIPT ||
> +        language == nsIProgrammingLanguage::JAVASCRIPT2) {
> +      ConsoleStackEntry& data = *aRefiedStack.AppendElement();
> +      nsresult rv = StackFrameToStackEntry(stack, data, language);

you don't need nsresult here. rv is already defined at line 784.

@@ +902,5 @@
> +  } else {
> +    // nsIStackFrame is not threadsafe, so we need to snapshot it now,
> +    // before we post our runnable to the main thread.
> +    callData->mReifiedStack.construct();
> +    nsresult rv = ReifyStack(stack, callData->mReifiedStack.ref());

remove nsresult.

@@ +903,5 @@
> +    // nsIStackFrame is not threadsafe, so we need to snapshot it now,
> +    // before we post our runnable to the main thread.
> +    callData->mReifiedStack.construct();
> +    nsresult rv = ReifyStack(stack, callData->mReifiedStack.ref());
> +    if (NS_FAILED(rv)) {

NS_WARN_IF
Attachment #8405612 - Flags: review?(amarchesini) → review+
I tried landing this, but it bounced because we can't WrapNative that object in an untrusted scope (and my testing was via file://, which in my case is trusted enough). 

I talked to bholley and he OKed creating our event object in the junk scope, which is a trusted scope.  Going to post a patch that goes under the other one to do that.
> remove nsresult.

Oh, and can't do that: there is no rv in scope there.
Attachment #8407298 - Flags: review?(amarchesini) → review+
Because the changeset right before mine changed the signature of JS_DefineProperty, sigh.

Pushed with that fixed up:

   https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/0b3a14bbfd81
   https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/c674dc13ef85
Gah.  We end up operating on the values we have stashed....  Looks like we need to keep around mGlobal to do that, then do the actual dictionary conversion in the junkscope compartment.
Attachment #8408041 - Flags: review?(amarchesini)
Attachment #8407298 - Attachment is obsolete: true
Attachment #8408041 - Flags: review?(amarchesini) → review+
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/00e2d9fabb82
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e8fb458e5d0f
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → Firefox 31
QA Whiteboard: [qa-]
Product: Firefox → DevTools
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