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This Pull Request enables support for `no_std` targets on some of our sub-crates. I intentionally left out `boa_ast` and `boa_cli` because they're the largest crates we have after `boa_engine`.
`boa_gc` is a monster on its own, because we'll need to design a `no_std` multithreaded GC.
Anyways, this changes the following:
- Adds support for `no_std` on `boa_unicode`.
- Adds support for `no_std` on `boa_profiler`.
- Adds support for `no_std` on `boa_interner`.
- Adds support for `no_std` on `boa_icu_provider`.
Per the [Standard Library development guide](https://std-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/code-considerations/performance/inline.html):
> You can add `#[inline]`:
>
> - To public, small, non-generic functions.
>
> You shouldn't need `#[inline]`:
> - On methods that have any generics in scope.
> - On methods on traits that don't have a default implementation.
>
> `#[inline]` can always be introduced later, so if you're in doubt they can just be removed.
This PR follows this guideline to reduce the number of `#[inline]` annotations in our code, removing the annotation in:
- Non-public functions
- Generic functions
- Medium and big functions.
Hopefully this shouldn't impact our perf at all, but let's wait to see the benchmark results.
This Pull Request restructures the lint deny/warn/allow lists in almost all crates. `boa_engine` will be done in a follow up PR as the changes there are pretty extensive.
I think it's time to address the elephant in the room.
This Pull Request will (hopefully!) solve part of #736.
This is a complete rewrite of `JsString`, but instead of storing `u8` bytes it stores `u16` words. The `encode!` macro (renamed to `utf16!` for simplicity) from the `const-utf16` crate allows us to create UTF-16 encoded arrays at compilation time. `JsString` implements `Deref<Target=[u16]>` to unlock the slice methods and possibly make some manipulations easier. However, we would need to create our own library of utilities for `JsString`.
So, @raskad and myself had a short discussion about the state of #736, and we came to the conclusion that it would be a good time to implement our own string interner; partly because the `string-interner` crate is a bit unmaintained (as shown by https://github.com/Robbepop/string-interner/pull/42 and https://github.com/Robbepop/string-interner/pull/47), and partly because it would be hard to experiment with custom optimizations for UTF-16 strings. I still want to thank @Robbepop for the original implementation though, because some parts of this design have been shamelessly stolen from it 😅.
Having said that, this PR is a complete reimplementation of the interner, but with some modifications to (hopefully!) make it a bit easier to experiment with UTF-16 strings, apply optimizations, and whatnot :)
José Julián Espina
Kevin
raskad