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v8: use AliasedBuffers for passing heap statistics around #32929

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Instead of holding shared pointers to ArrayBuffers, simplify
the code by using AliasedBuffers directly which allows the
binding to own the buffers.

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Instead of holding shared pointers to ArrayBuffers, simplify
the code by using AliasedBuffers directly which allows the
binding to own the buffers.
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mscdex commented Apr 19, 2020

This seems to cause a performance regression for getHeapSpaceStatistics() specifically:

                                                          confidence improvement accuracy (*)   (**)   (***)
v8/get-stats.js n=1000000 method='getHeapSpaceStatistics'        ***    -12.75 %       ±2.36% ±3.14%  ±4.09%
v8/get-stats.js n=1000000 method='getHeapStatistics'                     -0.05 %       ±5.79% ±7.72% ±10.07%

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LGTM but I've been thinking strongly about moving things away from AliasedBuffer to the new AliasedStruct to give us a bit more natural way of interacting with the data on the native side.

For instance, instead of having to use buffer[idx] = val on the native side, we'd have something more like buffer.foo = val

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@mscdex yes, the performance regression is caused by more calls into the C++ in getHeapSpaceStatistics() - though this is unlikely to be on any hot code path, so I think in this case the simplicity of the code is more important.

@jasnell Thanks for the heads up, it seems #32778 landed fairly recently. It seems to make more sense than the current homogenous array-based approach to me, though I guess we can make the transition incrementally :)

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mscdex commented Apr 20, 2020

Perhaps we should remove benchmark/v8/get-stats.js then?

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Instead of holding shared pointers to ArrayBuffers, simplify
the code by using AliasedBuffers directly which allows the
binding to own the buffers.

PR-URL: #32929
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Franziska Hinkelmann <franziska.hinkelmann@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
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Instead of holding shared pointers to ArrayBuffers, simplify
the code by using AliasedBuffers directly which allows the
binding to own the buffers.

PR-URL: #32929
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Franziska Hinkelmann <franziska.hinkelmann@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
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