Towards simplifying (or better removing entirely) the CoreResource
trait. Resources should be any bit of privileged heap allocated memory
that needs to be referenced from JS, not very specific trait
implementations. Therefore CoreResource should be pushed towards being
as general as possible.
It's unnecessary indirection and is preventing the ability to easily
pass isolate references into the dispatch and dyn_import closures.
Note: this changes how StartupData::Script is executed. It's no longer done
during Isolate::new() but rather lazily on first poll or execution.
* In order to prevent ArrayBuffers from getting garbage collected by V8,
we used to store a v8::Persistent<ArrayBuffer> in a map. This patch
introduces a custom ArrayBuffer allocator which doesn't use Persistent
handles, but instead stores a pointer to the actual ArrayBuffer data
alongside with a reference count. Since creating Persistent handles
has quite a bit of overhead, this change significantly increases
performance. Various HTTP server benchmarks report about 5-10% more
requests per second than before.
* Previously the Persistent handle that prevented garbage collection had
to be released manually, and this wasn't always done, which was
causing memory leaks. This has been resolved by introducing a new
`PinnedBuf` type in both Rust and C++ that automatically re-enables
garbage collection when it goes out of scope.
* Zero-copy buffers are now correctly wrapped in an Option if there is a
possibility that they're not present. This clears up a correctness
issue where we were creating zero-length slices from a null pointer,
which is against the rules.
Op dispatch is now dynamically dispatched, so slightly less efficient.
The immeasurable perf hit is a reasonable trade for the API simplicity
that is gained here.