When large strings are used they cause v8's GC to spend a lot more time
cleaning up. In these cases it's much faster to use external string
resources.
UTF8 strings do not use external string resources because only one and
two byte external strings are supported.
EXTERN_APEX is the value at which v8's GC overtakes performance.
The following table has the type and buffer size that use to encode the
strings as rough estimates of the percentage of performance gain from
this patch (UTF8 is missing because they cannot be externalized).
encoding 128KB 1MB 5MB
-----------------------------
ASCII 58% 208% 250%
HEX 15% 74% 86%
BASE64 11% 74% 71%
UCS2 2% 225% 398%
BINARY 2234% 1728% 2305%
BINARY is so much faster across the board because of using the new v8
WriteOneByte API.
v8 has a new API to write out strings to memory. This has been
implemented.
One other change of note is BINARY encoded strings have a new
implementation. This has improved performance substantially.
Before this commit NodeBIO never shrank, possibly consuming a lot of
memory (depending on reader's haste).
All buffers between write_head's child and read_head should be
deallocated on read, leaving only space left in write_head and in the
next buffer.
Commit 0bba5902 accidentally (or maybe erroneously) added node_isolate
to src/node.h and src/node_object_wrap.h.
Undo that, said variable is not for public consumption. Add-on authors
should use v8::Isolate::GetCurrent() instead.
I missed that while reviewing. Mea culpa.
Fixes#5639.
Remove the need to call start/stop the uv_idle spinner between
MakeCallbacks. The one place where the tick processor needs to be kicked
is where a user catches uncaughtException. For that we'll now use
setImmediate, which accomplishes the same task.
maxTickDepth checks have been removed for domains and replaced with a
flag that checks if the last callback threw. If it did then execution of
the remaining tickQueue is deferred to the spinner.
This is to prevent domains from entering a continuous loop when an error
callback also throws an error.
Removes the check for maxTickDepth for non-domain callbacks. So a user
can starve I/O by setting a recursive nextTick.
The domain case is more complex and will be addressed in another commit.
Previous code was calling uv_loop_delete() directly on a running loop,
which led to race condition aborts/segfaults within libuv. This change
changes the watchdog thread to call uv_run() with UV_RUN_ONCE so that
the call exits after either the timer times out or uv_async_send() is
called from the main thread in Watchdog::Destroy(). The timer/async
handles are then closed and uv_run() with UV_RUN_DEFAULT is called so
that libuv has a chance to cleanup before the thread exits. The main
thread meanwhile calls uv_thread_join() and then uv_loop_delete() to
complete the cleanup.
Quote from SSL_shutdown man page:
The output of SSL_get_error(3) may be misleading,
as an erroneous SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL may be flagged even though
no error occurred.
Also, handle all other errors to prevent assertion in `ClearError()`.
This saves a few calls to gettimeofday which can be expensive, and
potentially subject to clock drift. Instead use the loop time which
uses hrtime internally.
fixes#5497
Because of variations in different base64 implementation, it's been
decided to strip all padding from the end of a base64 string and
calculate its size from that.
Instead of String::New every time, use a Persistent sym. This can be
accomplished in two ways:
1) Local<String> str = *persistent_str_sym;
2) Handle<String> str = persistent_str_sym;
I've chosen to use the latter method for simplicity's sake.
Other small changes include creating syms on Initialize and removing
unnecessary Local casting on return values.
Fedor Indutny
isaacs
Trevor Norris
Ben Noordhuis
Nick Desaulniers
Andrew Paprocki
Timothy J Fontaine