deno/ext/ffi
Bartek Iwańczuk 9c2f9f14e7
refactor(ext/ffi): use v8::Value instead of serde_v8::Value (#23035)
Follow up to https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/23034 that removes
another usage of `serde_v8::Value`.
2024-03-22 19:51:05 +00:00
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00_ffi.js refactor: Use virtul ops module (#22175) 2024-01-29 22:02:26 +01:00
call.rs chore: update copyright to 2024 (#21753) 2024-01-01 19:58:21 +00:00
callback.rs chore: update copyright to 2024 (#21753) 2024-01-01 19:58:21 +00:00
Cargo.toml chore: Forward 1.41.3 release commit (#22930) 2024-03-14 21:23:24 +00:00
dlfcn.rs refactor(ext/ffi): use v8::Value instead of serde_v8::Value (#23035) 2024-03-22 19:51:05 +00:00
ir.rs refactor(ext/ffi): don't go through serde_v8::Value (#23034) 2024-03-22 19:05:06 +00:00
lib.rs chore: update copyright to 2024 (#21753) 2024-01-01 19:58:21 +00:00
README.md chore: move test_ffi and test_nap to tests/ [WIP] (#22394) 2024-02-12 13:46:50 -07:00
repr.rs chore: upgrade deno_core to 0.244.0 (#21859) 2024-01-09 17:25:10 +01:00
static.rs chore: update copyright to 2024 (#21753) 2024-01-01 19:58:21 +00:00
symbol.rs chore: update copyright to 2024 (#21753) 2024-01-01 19:58:21 +00:00
turbocall.rs chore: update copyright to 2024 (#21753) 2024-01-01 19:58:21 +00:00

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 ./tests/ffi/tests/bench.js