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TraceMonkey [9.4?] #2

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Recommend known JavaScript updates here. THIS IS THE PREFERRED WAY TO
REPORT A JAVASCRIPT BUG, as this means the code already exists. The best
patch is short and as similar to Mozilla 1.3.1 as possible (such as 1.4 or
1.5) as this is the codebase on which Clecko is based, just like the Layout
META bug.

DO NOT SUBMIT PATCHES AGAINST SpiderMonkey -- SpiderMonkey will not work in
its current form under OS 9 or Clecko, and may never be made to work
without a complete rewrite.

UPDATES WITH SECURITY CONTENT SHOULD GO IN THE SECURITY THREAD.

Please include:
1. Bugzilla number
2. Testcase URL. If your URL causes a crash, please say so, or people will
be very angry!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by classi...@floodgap.com on 27 May 2009 at 1:15

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
JavaScript 1.8.0.x porting has begun for 9.0.4. If this is successful, we'll 
advance
incrementally.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 18 Jul 2009 at 3:27

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Holding further progress on this (we're actually selecting from *Mozilla* 1.8, 
which
is actually JavaScript 1.6) as it seems some of the bugs that were allegedly to 
be
fixed are actually DOM issues. However, we will increase the memory runtime for 
9.0.4
to see if things like JQuery can work (I get out of memory errors for those).

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 8 Aug 2009 at 5:20

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Increasing runtime did NOT help. This is an interpreter issue. Officially 
pushing
JavaScript interpreter change to 9.0.5 series with target for 9.1. DOM changes 
will
still land in 9.0.4.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 12 Aug 2009 at 5:25

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
For 9.0.4, some of the syntactic changes in Mozilla 1.7/1.8's parser were 
backported
to JS1.5 pending the full upgrade sequence. This gets a lot more sites parsing. 
The
missing functionality for these sites is probably still DOM gaps.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 23 Aug 2009 at 8:03

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Several things we cannot solve with merely parser updates:

- JS_markGCthing crashes in multiple and inexplicably complicated ways (twitpic)
- recursion overload (aolmail comes to mind)
- regex object methods (gmail)

When 9.0.4 ships, we should immediately do a pullup to the highest available Moz
1.8.x for 9.0.5. 1.9 might be 9.0.6.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 15 Sep 2009 at 5:19

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Summary change

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 25 Feb 2010 at 6:13

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Using as a tracker for the new JavaScript for 9.2. This is a must.

The target is Fx 3.6 (Moz 1.9.2). Getting the JSON methods would be a win too. 
If
not, Camino 1.6.11 (Moz 1.8.1.23), which at least gets us to JavaScript 1.7.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 7 Apr 2010 at 1:16

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The first step is porting all the Metrowerks and classic Mac-specific changes. 
These
touch:

% cd mozilla/js
% grep -lr XP_MAC * | grep '\.[ch]'
jsd/jsd_java.c
jsd/jsdstubs.c
src/fdlibm/k_standard.c
src/js.c
src/jsbool.c
src/jscpucfg.c
src/jscpucfg.h
src/jsfile.c
src/jsinterp.c
src/jsmath.c
src/jsobj.c
src/jsosdep.h
src/jsotypes.h
src/jsregexp.c
src/jstypes.h
src/jsutil.c
src/liveconnect/jsj.c
src/liveconnect/jsj_convert.c
src/liveconnect/jsj_hash.c
src/liveconnect/jsj_JSObject.c
src/liveconnect/jsj_private.h
src/liveconnect/jsj_simpleapi.c
src/prmjtime.c
src/xpconnect/loader/mozJSComponentLoader.cpp
src/xpconnect/shell/xpcshell.cpp
% grep -lr MWERKS * | grep '\.[ch]'
src/jscpucfg.c
src/jsdate.c
src/jslibmath.h
src/jsnum.c
src/jstypes.h

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 11 Apr 2010 at 11:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Initial survey complete. In addition to the diffs that will be needed,

##################################
### FILES THAT ARE BEING ADDED ###
##################################
jsdtracef.c and jsdtracef.h
no obvious problems. this IS called by jsinterp.c so we must use them

jsinvoke.c
I'm not sure what this is; it just #includes jsinterp.c.
Skip it?

jsiter.c and jsiter.h

we do NOT need jskwgen.c

jsxml.c and jsxml.h

############################################
### FILES TO MOVE INTO THE LEGACY FOLDER ###
############################################

jsosdep.h (may merge into jscpucfg.h)

Also,
general notes:
use jsconfig.h to control what features we import if some don't work.
make sure to get all *.tbl and *.msg files; they are usually included. There 
are several.

Changes in the API:
JS_Init(mem) should be changed to JS_NewRuntime(mem)
The API recommendation is 0x400000L for the init, but it seems like Firefox 
goes even
bigger.
When shutting down, change JS_Finish(rt) to:
JS_DestroyRuntime(rt)
followed by JS_ShutDown() // Finish did both roles

We also need to largely port back prjmtime.c -- most of that is very custom 
code for
classic Mac. I am not going to update js.c if I can possibly avoid it.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 22 Apr 2010 at 4:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
This at least gets us to the default SpiderMonkey implementation without 
TraceMonkey.
It might be worth doing that first to find any glitches there, make a save 
point, and
then try to jump to TraceMonkey. I have some concerns about whether the PPC 
nanojit
will compile, let alone operate, so it will be best to stick with the pure C
implementation first.

diff to http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.9.2/source/js/src/
after.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 22 Apr 2010 at 1:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
... and make sure we obey
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/SpiderMonkey/JSAPI_User_Guide

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 22 Apr 2010 at 1:31

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Flipped the switch on SpiderMonkey tonight. Still have a lot of problems with 
jQuery
sites, including jquery.org itself (need to get the uncompressed version and do 
some
testing in Venkman). However, SunSpider runtime is already under 16000ms, and 
eBay
and NYT now work! I think we'll do some serious study of TraceMonkey at this 
point
and then determine our next move.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 25 Apr 2010 at 4:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The key problems to overcome will be namespaces, which it appears CW 7.1 *does*
support, and code generation, which is currently written only for GCC in the PPC
nanojit. Also, the entire codebase must be converted to C++, although much of 
that is
still the same code.

On the other hand, we also get native JSON and some other nice things, so this 
is
definitely worth trying. If we get nowhere, we revert and simply use regular
SpiderMonkey.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 26 Apr 2010 at 2:04

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
TraceMonkey is already a failure. The rdtsc emulation code uses mftb/mftbu, and 
I
don't think mfrtcl/mfrtcu is going to be an adequate substitute for 601.

More to the point, the code generator heavily relies on the gcc assembler 
syntax and
I could not translate it. As written I don't think it's arbitrarily 
translatable to
CodeWarrior in any manner -- it would need a full rewrite and I don't think I'm 
up to
that challenge.

We will stick with SpiderMonkey for 9.2 though I would sure love native JSON. I 
might
see if I can add that.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 26 Apr 2010 at 3:53

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Comparison with MXR shows that we are now running the same engine as Firefox 
3.0.19.
This is a huge leap forward.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 17 May 2010 at 6:48

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
No new problems have been found; they are all DOM. I am holding this bug over 
for the
TraceMonkey conversion which I want to do around 9.4.

Original comment by classi...@floodgap.com on 17 May 2010 at 11:28