X87: Move hash code from hidden string to a private symbol
port eca5b5d7 (r28622). original commit message: * Hash code is now just done with a private own symbol instead of the hidden string, which predates symbols. * In the long run we should do all hidden properties this way and get rid of the hidden magic 0-length string with the zero hash code. The advantages include less complexity and being able to do things from JS in a natural way. * Initially, the performance of weak set regressed, because it's a little harder to do the lookup in C++. Instead of heroics in C++ to make things faster I moved some functionality into JS and got the performance back. JS is supposed to be good at looking up named properties on objects. * This also changes hash codes of Smis so that they are always Smis. Performance figures are in the comments to the code review. Summary: Most of js-perf-test/Collections is neutral. Set and Map with object keys are 40-50% better. WeakMap is -5% and WeakSet is +9%. In the code review comments is a patch with an example of the heroics we could do in C++ to make lookup faster (I hope we don't have to do this. Instead of checking for the property, then doing a new In a similar vein we could give the magic zero hash code to the hash code symbol. Then when we look up the hash code we would sometimes see the table with all the hidden properties. This dual use of the field for either the hash code or the table with all hidden properties and the hash code is rather ugly, and this CL gets rid of it. I'd be loath to bring it back. On the benchmarks quoted above it's slightly slower than moving the hash code lookup to JS like in this CL. One worry is that the benchmark results above are more monomorphic than real world code, so may be overstating the performance benefits of moving to JS. I think this is part of a general issue we have with handling polymorphic code in JS and any solutions there will benefit this solution, which boils down to regular property access. Any improvement there will lift all boats. BUG= Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/1153963010 Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#28716}
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