还有一个是从AST直接生成机器码,但是这个现在已经被换成了Ignition(解释器)+TurboFan(类型优化编译器)的架构了。
先说隐藏类:对一个JS对象的属性访问而言,最简单的解释器实现会把属性建模为运行时的hash<string, object>查询。然而这个性能太慢,怎么优化呢?简单的说就是参考静态编译器的思路,把属性field的按名字访问,抹掉名字信息,变成按offset访问。——不过这样就需要一个class的描述符数据结构。
The implementation of an IC is called a stub. Stubs behave like functions in the sense that you call them, and they return, but they don't necessarily set up a stack frame and follow the full calling convention. Stubs are usually generated on the fly, but for common cases, they can be cached and reused by multiple ICs. The stub which implements an IC typically contains optimized code which handles the types of operands that particular IC has encountered in the past (which is why it's c