When chromium OS on a chromebook boots up, which directory is the first to
be invoked and then executed

2018-08-21 11:12 GMT+02:00 dan Med <litokis.ta...@gmail.com>:

> Yeah thank you ! i'm going to dig it all !
>
> 2018-08-21 10:55 GMT+02:00 Leszek Swirski <lesz...@chromium.org>:
>
>> Hi dan,
>>
>> Glad to hear things are working for you. The functions you're looking at
>> are intrinsic/runtime functions, and that syntax is the "natives" syntax,
>> enabled for user code with the "--allow-natives-syntax" flag. Some people
>> have used this in the past to e.g. track optimisation behaviour, like this
>> (no longer in-date) documentation from bluebird
>> <https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-killers#1-tooling>
>> .
>>
>> Those functions are found in C++, not in Javascript, as they are runtime
>> calls. They are declared in src/runtime/runtime.h, where you can also find
>> the documentation of the %Foo and %_Foo syntax. The definitions are in the
>> .cc files under src/runtime, prefixed with "Runtime_" -- e.g. %GetArrayKeys
>> is defined in runtime-array.cc
>> <https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/v8/src/runtime/runtime-array.cc?l=455&rcl=a3d09098655de3c43eec029fec2a766d63f36caf>
>>  (btw,
>> https://cs.chromium.org/ is a great way of browsing the code). Similarly
>> you can find the C++ definition of %IsSmi by searching for Runtime_IsSmi
>> <https://cs.chromium.org/search/?q=Runtime_IsSmi>.
>>
>> %_IsSmi, with the underscore, is an inlined intrinsic (specifically, an
>> intrinsic that *can* be inlined by the compiler). In the interpreter, for
>> example, this is in the supported intrinsics list
>> <https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/v8/src/interpreter/interpreter-intrinsics.h?l=16&rcl=a3d09098655de3c43eec029fec2a766d63f36caf>,
>> so we output an InvokeIntrinsic bytecode
>> <https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/v8/src/interpreter/bytecode-array-builder.cc?l=1407&rcl=a3d09098655de3c43eec029fec2a766d63f36caf>
>>  rather
>> than a runtime call bytecode, which has an generated assembly handler
>> which, during execution, dispatches on the intrinsic's id
>> <https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/v8/src/interpreter/interpreter-intrinsics-generator.cc?l=98&rcl=a3d09098655de3c43eec029fec2a766d63f36caf>
>> and for IsSmi does the Smi check
>> <https://cs.chromium.org/chromium/src/v8/src/interpreter/interpreter-intrinsics-generator.cc?l=189&rcl=a3d09098655de3c43eec029fec2a766d63f36caf>.
>> The optimizing compiler has similar logic.
>>
>> Hope that helps -- V8 is a complex codebase due to the interplay between
>> C++, javascript, generated assembly, etc., so don't expect to be able to
>> easily find where everything is defined or how everything works without
>> serious digging.
>>
>> - Leszek
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 6:14 PM dan Med <litokis.ta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How do these function get called
>>> %GetArrayKeys
>>> cause i can't seem to find them in the /src/array.js
>>> as well as  %_IsSmi in the same file
>>>
>>> 2018-08-20 19:04 GMT+02:00 dan Med <litokis.ta...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Yes i will use it
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2018-08-20 15:57 GMT+02:00 <danny.p...@gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> I have uploaded a .Net 4.5 application that I wrote over the weekend
>>>>> to configure and build V8. It's available here: V8Builder
>>>>> <https://github.com/dannypike/V8Builder>.
>>>>>
>>>>> In the README are TL;DR-style instructions if you don't want to use
>>>>> the GUI (or can't build it and don't have a friend with a C# compiler).
>>>>>
>>>>> I gave up trying to write simple instructions, it was much easier to
>>>>> write an application instead.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope it helps,
>>>>>
>>>>> Dan
>>>>>
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