This commit adds support for the recently implemented standard of
[`TextEncoder#encodeInto`][standard]. This new function is a "bring your
own buffer" style function where we can avoid an intermediate allocation
and copy by encoding strings directly into wasm's memory.
Currently we feature-detect whether `encodeInto` exists as it is only
implemented in recent browsers and not in all browsers. Additionally
this commit emits the binding using `encodeInto` by default, but this
requires `realloc` functionality to be exposed by the wasm module.
Measured locally an empty binary which takes `&str` previously took
7.6k, but after this commit takes 8.7k due to the extra code needed for
`realloc`.
[standard]: https://encoding.spec.whatwg.org/#dom-textencoder-encodeintoCloses#1172
This commit adds experimental support to `wasm-bindgen` to emit and
leverage the `anyref` native wasm type. This native type is still in a
proposal status (the reference-types proposal). The intention of
`anyref` is to be able to directly hold JS values in wasm and pass the
to imported functions, namely to empower eventual host bindings (now
renamed WebIDL bindings) integration where we can skip JS shims
altogether for many imports.
This commit doesn't actually affect wasm-bindgen's behavior at all
as-is, but rather this support requires an opt-in env var to be
configured. Once the support is stable in browsers it's intended that
this will add a CLI switch for turning on this support, eventually
defaulting it to `true` in the far future.
The basic strategy here is to take the `stack` and `slab` globals in the
generated JS glue and move them into wasm using a table. This new table
in wasm is managed at the fringes via injected shims. At
`wasm-bindgen`-time the CLI will rewrite exports and imports with shims
that actually use `anyref` if needed, performing loads/stores inside the
wasm module instead of externally in the wasm module.
This should provide a boost over what we have today, but it's not a
fantastic strategy long term. We have a more grand vision for `anyref`
being a first-class type in the language, but that's on a much longer
horizon and this is currently thought to be the best we can do in terms
of integration in the near future.
The stack/heap JS tables are combined into one wasm table. The stack
starts at the end of the table and grows down with a stack pointer (also
injected). The heap starts at the end and grows up (state managed in
linear memory). The anyref transformation here will hook up various
intrinsics in wasm-bindgen to the runtime functionality if the anyref
supoprt is enabled.
The main tricky treatment here was applied to closures, where we need JS
to use a different function pointer than the one Rust gives it to use a
JS function pointer empowered with anyref. This works by switching up a
bit how descriptors work, embedding the shims to call inside descriptors
rather than communicated at runtime. This means that we're accessing
constant values in the generated JS and we can just update the constant
value accessed.
We've had a lot of bug reports with upstream webpack currently and while
webpack has a fix it may take a moment to deploy. Let's try and fix
wasm-bindgen in the meantime!
Once webpack is updated we can go back to emitting a producers section
by default and publish a new version of wasm-bindgen.
This should help handle instances like the recent Webpack bug and is
also a useful flag in its own right. For now it's set to `false`, but if
the Webpack bug persists through to tomorrow we likely want to publish a
version of `wasm-bindgen` with it default set to `true`.
This commit moves `wasm-bindgen` the CLI tool from internally using
`parity-wasm` for wasm parsing/serialization to instead use `walrus`.
The `walrus` crate is something we've been working on recently with an
aim to replace the usage of `parity-wasm` in `wasm-bindgen` to make the
current CLI tool more maintainable as well as more future-proof.
The `walrus` crate provides a much nicer AST to work with as well as a
structured `Module`, whereas `parity-wasm` provides a very raw interface
to the wasm module which isn't really appropriate for our use case. The
many transformations and tweaks that wasm-bindgen does have a huge
amount of ad-hoc index management to carefully craft a final wasm
binary, but this is all entirely taken care for us with the `walrus`
crate.
Additionally, `wasm-bindgen` will ingest and rewrite the wasm file,
often changing the binary offsets of functions. Eventually with DWARF
debug information we'll need to be sure to preserve the debug
information throughout the transformations that `wasm-bindgen` does
today. This is practically impossible to do with the `parity-wasm`
architecture, but `walrus` was designed from the get-go to solve this
problem transparently in the `walrus` crate itself. (it doesn't today,
but this is planned work)
It is the intention that this does not end up regressing any
`wasm-bindgen` use cases, neither in functionality or in speed. As a
large change and refactoring, however, it's likely that at least
something will arise! We'll want to continue to remain vigilant to any
issues that come up with this commit.
Note that the `gc` crate has been deleted as part of this change, as the
`gc` crate is no longer necessary since `walrus` does it automatically.
Additionally the `gc` crate was one of the main problems with preserving
debug information as it often deletes wasm items!
Finally, this also starts moving crates to the 2018 edition where
necessary since `walrus` requires the 2018 edition, and in general it's
more pleasant to work within the 2018 edition!
Throw it in an `Option` and then `take()` it when we consume it to
ensure that future calls to insert data into it panic instead of
producing inconsistent JS.
This commit adds a new attribute to `#[wasm_bindgen]`: `start`. The
`start` attribute can be used to indicate that a function should be
executed when the module is loaded, configuring the `start` function of
the wasm executable. While this doesn't necessarily literally configure
the `start` section, it does its best!
Only one crate in a crate graph may indicate `#[wasm_bindgen(start)]`,
so it's not recommended to be used in libraries but only end-user
applications. Currently this still must be used with the `crate-type =
["cdylib"]` annotation in `Cargo.toml`.
The implementation here is somewhat tricky because of the circular
dependency between our generated JS and the wasm file that we emit. This
circular dependency makes running initialization routines (like the
`start` shim) particularly fraught with complications because one may
need to run before the other but bundlers may not necessarily respect
it. Workarounds have been implemented for various emission strategies,
for example calling the start function directly after exports are wired
up with `--no-modules` and otherwise working around what appears to be
a Webpack bug with initializers running in a different order than we'd
like. In any case, this in theory doesn't show up to the end user!
Closes#74
This generates a `*.d.ts` file for the wasm file that wasm-bindgen emits
whenever typescript is enable *in addition* to the `*.d.ts` file that
already exists for the JS shim.
Closes#1040
This commit adds an optimization to `wasm-bindgen` to directly import
and invoke other modules' functions from the wasm module, rather than
going through a shim in the imported bindings. This will be an important
optimization in the future for the host bindings proposal, but for now
it's largely just a proof-of-concept to show that we can do it and is
unlikely to bring about many performance benefits.
The implementation in this commit is largely refactoring to reorganize a
bit how functions are imported, but the implementation happens in
`generate_import_function`.
With this commit, 71/287 imports in the `tests/wasm/main.rs` suite get
hooked up directly to the ES modules, no shims needed!
This commit adds a `--remove-name-section` flag to the `wasm-bindgen`
command which will remove the `name` section of the wasm file, used to
indicate the names of functions typically used in debugging. This flag
is off-by-default and will primarily be controlled by wasm-pack,
typically being passed by default with `wasm-pack build --release`.
Closes#1021
... and add a parallel raytracing demo!
This commit adds enough support to `wasm-bindgen` to produce a workable
wasm binary *today* with the experimental WebAssembly threads support
implemented in Firefox Nightly. I've tried to comment what's going on in
the commits and such, but at a high level the changes made here are:
* A new transformation, living in a new `wasm-bindgen-threads-xform`
crate, prepares a wasm module for parallel execution. This performs a
number of mundane tasks which I hope to detail in a blog post later on.
* The `--no-modules` output is enhanced with more support for when
shared memory is enabled, allowing passing in the module/memory to
initialize the wasm instance on multiple threads (sharing both module
and memory).
* The `wasm-bindgen` crate now offers the ability, in `--no-modules`
mode, to get a handle on the `WebAssembly.Module` instance.
* The example itself requires Xargo to recompile the standard library
with atomics and an experimental feature enabled. Afterwards it
experimentally also enables threading support in wasm-bindgen.
I've also added hopefully enough CI support to compile this example in a
builder so we can upload it and poke around live online. I hope to
detail more about the technical details here in a blog post soon as
well!
This commit migrates away from using Serde for the custom section in
wasm executables. This is a refactoring of a purely-internal data
structure to `wasm-bindgen` and should have no visible functional change
on users.
The motivation for this commit is two fold:
* First, the compile times using `serde_json` and `serde_derive` for the
syntax extension isn't the most fun.
* Second, eventually we're going to want to stablize the layout of the
custom section, and it's highly unlikely to be json!
Primarily, though, the intention of this commit is to improve the
cold-cache compile time of `wasm-bindgen` by ensuring that for new users
this project builds as quickly as possible. By removing some heavyweight
dependencies from the procedural macro, `serde`, `serde_derive`, and
`serde_json`, we're able to get a pretty nice build time improvement for
the `wasm-bindgen` crate itself:
| | single-core build | parallel build |
|-------------|-------------------|----------------|
| master | 36.5s | 17.3s |
| this commit | 20.5s | 11.8s |
These are't really end-all-be-all wins but they're much better
especially on the spectrum of weaker CPUs (in theory modeled by the
single-core case showing we have 42% less CPU work in theory).
The `wasm-bindgen` crate is effectively the only user of this crate now
that the `wasm-gc` tool has been deprecated. It's also much easier to
keep it in this repository as it's easier to sync changes to
`parity-wasm`. I'd also like to start refactoring out utilities for
managing a `parity_wasm::Module` to share between this crate and the
other CLI support code.
This resulted in trailing whitespace in the generated file. In addition
to wasting space in a file that gets served over the wire, this also
gets highlighted as a problem when reviewing the generated file in an
editor that highlights trailing whitespace.
The default of Rust wasm binaries is to export the memory that they contain, but
LLD also supports an `--import-memory` option where memory is imported into a
module instead. It's looking like importing memory is along the lines of how
shared memory wasm modules will work (they'll all import the same memory).
This commit adds support to wasm-bindgen to support modules which import memory.
Memory accessors are tweaked to no longer always assume that the wasm module
exports its memory. Additionally JS bindings will create a `memory` option
automatically because LLD always imports memory from an `env` module which won't
actually exist.
This is a pretty heavyweight dependency which accounts for a surprising amount
of runtime for larger modules in `wasm-bindgen`. We don't need 90% of the crate
and so this commit bundles a small interpreter for instructions we know are only
going to appear in describe-related functions.
This commit adds experimental support for `WeakRef` to be used to automatically
free wasm objects instead of having to always call the `free` function manually.
Note that when enabled the `free` function for all exported objects is still
generated, it's just optionally invoked by the application.
Support isn't exposed through a CLI flag right now due to the early stages of
the `WeakRef` proposal, but the env var `WASM_BINDGEN_WEAKREF` can be used to
enable this generation. Upon doing so the output can then be edited slightly as
well to work in the SpiderMonkey shell and it looks like this is working!
Closes#704
First added in #161 this never ended up panning out, so let's remove the
experimental suport which isn't actually used by anything today and hold off on
any other changes until an RFC happens.
* Fix importing the same identifier from two modules
This needed a fix in two locations:
* First the generated descriptor function needed its hash to include the module
that the import came from in order to generate unique descriptor functions.
* Second the generation of the JS shim needed to handle duplicate identifiers in
a more uniform fashion, ensuring that imported names didn't clash.
* Fix importing the same name in two modules
Previously two descriptor functions with duplicate symbols were emitted, and now
only one function is emitted by using a global table to keep track of state
across macro invocations.
In addition to being more ergonomic these are much more efficient at reading
large files as they preallocate internally. This provides a nice speed boost
locally, reducing the overhead of `wasm-bindgen-test-runner` from 0.23s to
0.19s, yay!
This commit updates the test runner to only deserialize a `Module` once and then
directly pass it to the `wasm-bindgen` config, avoiding pulling in a public
dependency with the same strategy as the `wasm-gc-api` crate for now.
This reduces the runtime of this step for `wasm-bindgen-test-runner` from ~0.23s
to ~0.19s on my machine.
Since `wasmi` already has a public dependency on `parity_wasm` let's just use
it! A `clone` is much faster than a serialize + parse, reducing a `wasm-bindgen`
invocation on my machine from 0.2s to 0.18s.
This is a bit of a refinement of the solution from #548 to make sure that these
statics are only present on the `wasm32-*` targets, as otherwise these
descriptors are completely inert on other platforms!
* Bump to 0.2.12
* Update all version numbers and deps
* Update all listed authors to `["The wasm-bindgen Developers"]`
* Update `repository` links to specific paths for each crate
* Update `homepage` links to the online book
* Update all links away from `alexcrichton/wasm-bindgen`
* Add `#[doc]` directives for HTML URLs
* Update more version requirements
* Fill out CHANGELOG
This commit adds a hack to the `wasm-bindgen` CLI tool to work around #483 which
is present on nightly Rust with the recent LLVM upgrade. Hopefully this'll carry
us forward until the [upstream bug][1] is fixed.
Closes#483
[1]: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38184
The changes on master Rust insert debug sections now (yay!) but this means that
wasm binaries by default pick up debug sections from the standard library, so
let's remove them by default in wasm-bindgen unless `--debug` is passed
* Reorganize Travis configuration
* Add a `JOB` env var descriptor to all matrix entries. Not used anywhere but is
useful when viewing the whole build on Travis's web interface.
* Reorganize where builds are located, moving slow builds first and fast ones
last.
* Change checking the CLI builds from `cargo build` to `cargo check`
* Use YAML references to reduce some duplication
* Print some more timing statistics for each test
* Extract `Project` helper in tests to a module
This'll help make it a bit more extensible over time. At the same time the
methods are also slightly reorganized to read more clearly from top to bottom.
* Migrate all tests away from Webpack
Wepback can take a significant amount of time to execute and when it's
multiplied by hundreds of tests that adds up really quickly! After investigating
Node's `--experimental-modules` option it looks like it's suitable for our use
so this switches all tests to using JS files (moving away from TypeScript as
well) with `--experimental-modules` with Node.
Tests will be selectively re-enabled with webpack and node.js specific output
(that doesn't require `--experimental-modules`), coming in later commits.
* Restore the node test for node.js output
Ensures it's workable as-is
* Only generate typescript with webpack
* Only read wasm files for webpack
* Skip package.json/node_modules for now
* Only generate webpack config if needed
* Start a dedicated test module for typescript
Will hopefully verify the generated Typescript compiles OK.
* Remove unneeded `node` method
* Fixup some rebase conflicts
* Don't run asmjs example on travis
* Fixup generator tests
* Attempt to fix windows
* Comment windows fix
* More test fixes
* More exclusions
* More test fixes
* Relax eslint regex
Catch mjs modules as well
* Fix eslint
* Speed up travis on examples slightly
This can happen when a nested dependency crate exports things but the root crate
doesn't use them. In these cases, it is fine to ignore the missing descriptor,
because the thing it describes was removed as dead code.
