deno/ext/ffi
Matt Mastracci 9010b8df53
perf: remove knowledge of promise IDs from deno (#21132)
We can move all promise ID knowledge to deno_core, allowing us to better
experiment with promise implementation in deno_core.

`{un,}refOpPromise(promise)` is equivalent to
`{un,}refOp(promise[promiseIdSymbol])`
2023-11-09 13:57:26 -07:00
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00_ffi.js perf: remove knowledge of promise IDs from deno (#21132) 2023-11-09 13:57:26 -07:00
call.rs refactor: use deno_core::FeatureChecker for unstable checks (#20765) 2023-10-04 21:42:17 +02:00
callback.rs chore(ext/ffi): migrate part of FFI to op2 (#20699) 2023-09-27 07:54:43 -06:00
Cargo.toml chore(ext/ffi): use dlopen2 crate (#21093) 2023-11-05 09:29:26 +00:00
dlfcn.rs chore(ext/ffi): use dlopen2 crate (#21093) 2023-11-05 09:29:26 +00:00
ir.rs chore(ext/ffi): migrate part of FFI to op2 (#20699) 2023-09-27 07:54:43 -06:00
lib.rs refactor: FeatureChecker integration in ext/ crates (#20797) 2023-10-12 15:55:50 +00:00
README.md feat: granular --unstable-* flags (#20968) 2023-11-01 23:15:08 +01:00
repr.rs fix(ext/ffi): use anybuffer for op_ffi_buf_copy_into (#21006) 2023-10-28 10:02:57 +03:00
static.rs chore(ext/ffi): migrate part of FFI to op2 (#20699) 2023-09-27 07:54:43 -06:00
symbol.rs fix(ext/ffi): disallow empty ffi structs (#17487) 2023-01-21 21:21:14 +05:30
turbocall.rs perf: const op declaration (#18288) 2023-03-31 14:42:14 +02:00

deno_ffi

This crate implements dynamic library ffi.

Performance

Deno FFI calls have extremely low overhead (~1ns on M1 16GB RAM) and perform on par with native code. Deno leverages V8 fast api calls and JIT compiled bindings to achieve these high speeds.

Deno.dlopen generates an optimized and a fallback path. Optimized paths are triggered when V8 decides to optimize the function, hence call through the Fast API. Fallback paths handle types like function callbacks and implement proper error handling for unexpected types, that is not supported in Fast calls.

Optimized calls enter a JIT compiled function "trampoline" that translates Fast API values directly for symbol calls. JIT compilation itself is super fast, thanks to tinycc. Currently, the optimized path is only supported on Linux and MacOS.

To run benchmarks:

target/release/deno bench --allow-ffi --allow-read --unstable-ffi ./test_ffi/tests/bench.js