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Follow-up to #2092/#2093/#2096/#2097. This PR has three parts:

  • Object lifecycle redesign: a lock-free id table, batched finalizer handling, and class lookups by index.
  • Single-thread fixes: a round of profile-driven cuts to the Java ↔ JS call paths.
  • First access of large classes and packages: android.R.*, android.view, TextView and similar no longer pay quadratic or per-member costs when first touched.

The Numbers section starts with a main → this PR comparison over the whole benchmark harness.

Multithreaded JS is the model optimized for: the test app runs with it on.

Object lifecycle

Commit Change
keep Java object ids in one table com.tns.Runtime kept four id maps (strong/weak × both directions), synchronized when multithreaded JS is on. One ObjectTable replaces them: open addressing over the id and over System.identityHashCode, with no per-entry allocation. NativeScriptHashMap/WeakHashMap/AbstractMap are removed.
resolve known objects before the isolate lock Any thread can do an optimistic StampedLock read (API 24+). Java passes the ids it reads as hints, and native re-checks them under the isolate lock.
settle collected wrappers in batches / at the next crossing Finalizers only queue ids. One processFinalizedBatch call per batch replaces one JNI call per wrapper. The batch flushes at the next JS↔Java crossing, with a delayed event-loop task as the idle fallback. A wrapper handed back to JS while queued is skipped.
class by index instead of by name Java gives each class a dense index and sends it with each object. Native caches the JNI name and a global class ref by index, so wrapping a new object no longer calls Class.getName() and FindClass. This makes the class-name cache in #2075 unnecessary.
register new argument objects before the isolate lock ObjectTable.findOrRegister does the find and insert under one write lock. A call that fails before converting its arguments releases the objects it registered. API < 24 keeps registration under the isolate lock.
settle a batch under one write lock, and after each call
keep the next Java caller awake With two Java threads calling in, every isolate handoff put the waiter to sleep, and waking it (~100–150 µs on the test phone) took longer than the call itself. Java→JS calls now pass a per-runtime gate before v8::Locker that spins for up to 50 µs before sleeping. Nested calls skip it. Runtime.setAdmissionSpinMicros (public, static) tunes the budget; a negative value disables the gate.
index ObjectTable's entries directly by id The id side of ObjectTable was a hash on the id that doubled and rehashed as it grew (12% of the page faults in a new-object profile). It is now a radix tree indexed by id: 64-id leaves in 64-leaf chunks, holding each entry's value and identity hash. Lookups are three array loads, and a leaf or chunk that empties is dropped unless it is the newest, so memory follows the live objects. The identity index is unchanged.

Single-thread call paths

Commit Change
skip the unconverted-argument cleanup for calls without arguments Bug: no-argument callbacks always ran the failed-call cleanup path, which cost about a third of the native time of callback.noArgs().
read a callback's argument types and values in one JNI call Type ids ride at the end of the long[], so native makes one region read instead of three JNI calls.
register a constructed object and read heap usage in one upcall new X() made two upcalls after the constructor; now it makes one.
replace a package child's getter with its value on first read java.lang.Object ran a C++ getter for every package segment on every access. Children are now lazy data properties.
look up resolved signatures without allocating Constructors and overloaded methods built and copied std::strings on every call.
internalize cached property names / create wrappers without a constructor call Wrappers come from the instance template, with no JS→C++ call into an empty constructor and no fresh "constructor" string.
one TLS lookup per thread state minSdk < 29 means emulated TLS, so JEnv and Runtime state are each read as one struct.
keep each callback method name's V8 string Every Java→JS call copied the method name out of its String (two JNI calls) and internalized it again: ~11% of a noArgs callback. Java now gives each name a process-wide id (MethodNameIds: lock-free, keyed on String's cached hash, reference check before equals), and each runtime keeps the V8 string per id. No binding-generator change.
let a binding carry its JS object id, and look runtimes up by index A callback probed ObjectTable for its receiver's JS object id and boxed the runtime tag into a ConcurrentHashMap lookup on every call. Both generators now give bindings an objectId__ns field next to #2015's runtimeTag__ns; initInstance writes it before the tag, and callJSMethod passes it to native as the id hint (native still checks it; ids are never reused). NativeScriptRuntimeBound gains getObjectId__ns/setObjectId__ns as default methods, so a binding compiled without the field falls back to the lookup. Runtimes are indexed by id in an array, and the two AppConfig flags the call path reads are cached in final fields.
keep each identity-index entry's hash Registering a new object first misses in ObjectTable's identity index, and each probe candidate cost an id-table lookup plus a WeakReference dereference. The index now keeps each entry's identity hash, so a probe only looks an id up when the hashes match.
cache a wrapper class's MetadataNode, allocate a link's handle with its state A new wrapper looked its class's MetadataNode up by name (a mutex and a string hash) and made three allocations to link. The per-class-index cache now keeps the node, and the v8::Persistent is a member of the weak-callback state.
resolve a callback's receiver wrapper with one map lookup GetLinkedJsObjectByJavaObject found the id's entry, then GetJsObjectByJavaObject looked it up again. Neutral in measurement; a cleanup.
keep a linked object's state in one allocation, indexed by id Link allocated a JSInstanceInfo, a weak-callback state that duplicated its id, a V8 External for the JSInstanceInfo, and an std::unordered_map node. JSInstanceInfo is now part of the state, the wrapper's JsInfo internal field holds id + 1 (a Smi) instead of an External, and the id map is a radix tree like the Java one. A stale alias now resolves to no state instead of freed memory. The + 1 keeps the zero V8 stores in an array buffer's embedder fields from reading as a link.
build Java object wrappers from the class's instance template A wrapper was an empty object from one shared template that then got an own constructor, a new prototype and a private property holding a fresh External. Each step was a map transition off the same shared map, and the per-class constructor values kept generalizing its field, so most of a wrapper's creation was V8 migrating and searching maps (MigrateToMap, GeneralizeField, SetPrototype in the profile). Wrappers now come from the class's instance template, already on the class's own map with the right prototype. The MetadataNode goes in a new internal field, one shared External per class per runtime; new X() uses it too. See Notes for review for the visible change.
address review findings A Java→JS call that threw could lose its exception: the finalizer flush after the call made JNI calls with the exception pending (CheckJNI aborts) and then cleared it, so the Java caller got null. The flush now defers to its scheduled task while an exception is pending. Also: super read through a non-Java object no longer dereferences a null MetadataNode; the two isolate-locked get-or-create upcalls register through findOrRegister, so they cannot race a thread registering call arguments; object ids are unsigned 32-bit in both id indexes; package children are read-only again, as on main; signature encoding runs no JS.
let only the instance JS is constructing take its object id While JS constructs a Java object, Runtime.currentObjectId holds the id reserved for it, and the binding's initInstance takes it. Any binding instance Java created inside that constructor (by reflection, or a NativeScript custom view inflated by it) took the same id too, and since bindings now cache their id, its callbacks ran on the outer object's JS. The class under construction is now published with the id and only an instance of exactly that class takes it, once. The scope also restores the enclosing construction instead of -1 when a callback made by a constructor constructs another object. The class field is written only when it changes, so repeated constructions cost the same two field writes as before (measured flat). This predates the PR, but the id cache made it a silent misroute instead of an error.
pass a binding argument's own object id to a callback packageArgs probed the identity index for every object argument. A binding of the receiving runtime carries its id (the same field the receiver hint uses), so it is passed as the hint; native still resolves it under the isolate lock and falls back to the exact lookup. callback.oneObject(binding) (the callback object passed to itself, like an adapter passing its JS ViewHolder): 1,704 → 1,682 ns.
build wrappers of Java-created extended instances from their template Instances of an extended class that Java creates (Activities, inflated custom views, reflection) got their JS object from the shared wrapper template plus SetPrototype and an own constructor, the path the instance-template commit left alone. They now come from the extended class's own instance template. JavaCreated.newInstance(extendedClass): 9,783 → 7,621 ns (-22%). A follow-up commit keeps such an instance on the class's current prototype: V8 copies template instances from a cached first instantiation, so after code reassigns an extended class's prototype, new instances kept the old one (spec fails without the check). It only sets the prototype when it differs, which a profile shows never happens otherwise.
bind calls between the runtime's own functions directly The regular runtime exports everything in the V8 monolith, so 45,008 of its 45,279 PLT slots pointed back into the library. -Bsymbolic-functions binds them at link time; exported functions stay callable from plugins and data symbols stay interposable. The optimized runtimes, which apps get unless a plugin asks for V8 symbols, already had 271 slots and are unchanged.

First access of large classes

Commit Change
install a large class's static fields without a getter and setter function each Every static field got two JS functions on first touch, which is ~1,800 of them for android.R.attr. Classes with more than 64 static fields now go to dictionary mode first: adding native accessors one by one to a fast-mode object copies its descriptors each time. Final fields become lazy read-only data properties, so after the first read they are plain property loads (R.id.content: 74 → 9 ns). Small classes keep the getter/setter functions, which call faster on a fast-mode object.
build a large package's object in dictionary mode A package object gets one lazy property per child, so android.view and android.widget were quadratic for the same reason.
create member names internalized, straight from the metadata V8 internalizes every property name, so names built with kNormal from a std::string copy were copied twice more. Static field names come from a view into the metadata's name table.
find a method's base-class counterpart by hash, not by a scan Each method compared its name against every method of its base class: hundreds of thousands of string comparisons for TextView over View.
create Java methods and accessors as non-constructors For each constructible API function it instantiates, V8 also builds a prototype object, its constructor property and an instance map, which a method never uses. Instance methods, field/property accessors and helper functions now use ConstructorBehavior::kThrow. Class constructors and static methods stay constructible (see Notes for review).

Numbers

Medians on a Samsung SM-G780G (Snapdragon 865, not rooted). Release APK built as the optimized runtime (the one apps ship), speed-compiled, 7 rounds per row. The phone flips between two clock states about 1.6× apart, so only launches in the fast state are compared (field.get int ≤ 180 ns on main): 3 launches of main and 8 of this PR. "main" is this PR's merge base, e15d21a8, running this PR's benchmark harness. Times are ns unless marked µs; first-access rows are one sample per launch.

main → this PR

benchmark main this PR Δ
first access android.R (µs) 284 314 +10%
first access android.R.attr (µs) 7,431 1,026 -86%
first access android.R.id (µs) 606 253 -58%
first access android.R.style (µs) 6,037 608 -90%
first access android.R.drawable (µs) 965 264 -73%
first access android.R.string (µs) 342 176 -49%
first read android.R.id.content (µs) 123 66 -47%
first read android.R.id.text1 (µs) 94 45 -52%
first read android.R.attr.textColor (µs) 108 60 -44%
first read android.R.style.Theme (µs) 151 86 -43%
first access android.view [package] (µs) 825 116 -86%
first access android.view.View (µs) 3,836 1,360 -65%
first access android.widget [package] (µs) 951 118 -88%
first access android.widget.TextView (µs) 1,439 704 -51%
first access android.content.Context (µs) 377 314 -17%
first access android.app.Activity (µs) 1,001 620 -38%
first calls of 20 android.view.View methods (µs) 234 192 -18%
static.noop() 107 106 -2%
static.add(int,int) 176 168 -4%
static.addDouble(double,double) 224 215 -4%
static.addLong(long,long) 188 178 -5%
instance.noop() 246 225 -9%
instance.getAlpha() [android.view.View] 251 244 -3%
package member read android.view.View 464 16 -97%
instance.getInt() 249 224 -10%
instance.getBool() 251 242 -4%
instance.getChar() 262 239 -9%
instance.echo(String) 692 658 -5%
instance.echo(String 1KB) 4,487 4,173 -7%
instance.getString() 436 423 -3%
instance.self() [wrapped return] 460 416 -9%
instance.getOther() [wrapped return] 464 417 -10%
instance.takeObject(Object) 536 499 -7%
instance.takeObjects(Object x3) 1,092 1,016 -7%
static.bufferCapacity(ArrayBuffer) 433 398 -8%
static.sumInts(int[8] from JS array) 751 756 +1%
static.newObjectOfManyClasses() [16 classes] 7,285 1,783 -76%
static.newObjectInJava() [new wrapper] 7,309 1,286 -82%
new java.lang.Object() 5,495 2,340 -57%
new Object.extend({})() 5,440 3,976 -27%
static field get int [small class] 73 72 -2%
static field get final int [small class] 73 77 +5%
static field set int [small class] 75 74 -1%
static field get final int [android.R.id] 79 8.0 -90%
field.get int 172 161 -6%
field.set int 169 162 -4%
field.get Object 357 325 -9%
field.get String 370 352 -5%
lifecycle new java.lang.Object() [alloc, kept alive] 5,282 2,317 -56%
lifecycle new java.lang.Object() [release: V8 gc] 2,194 330 -85%
lifecycle new java.lang.Object() [release: Java gc] 1,001 740 -26%
lifecycle new Object.extend({})() [alloc, kept alive] 5,226 4,118 -21%
lifecycle new Object.extend({})() [release: V8 gc] 2,259 409 -82%
lifecycle new Object.extend({})() [release: Java gc] 1,025 747 -27%
lifecycle JniBench.newObjectInJava() [alloc, kept alive] 9,281 1,982 -79%
lifecycle JniBench.newObjectInJava() [release: V8 gc] 2,266 323 -86%
lifecycle JniBench.newObjectInJava() [release: Java gc] 1,028 742 -28%
instance.self() [50k live wrappers] 462 418 -9%
callback.noArgs() 1,637 457 -72%
callback.twoInts(int,int) 2,149 1,408 -34%
callback.oneString(String) 2,730 1,976 -28%
callback.intReturn(int) -> int 2,470 1,768 -28%
callback.oneObject(Object) 2,282 1,692 -26%
callback.oneObject(new Object) 10,098 3,085 -69%
callback.oneObject(new, 16 classes) 10,742 3,118 -71%
contention 1 thread(s), no args 4,224 2,109 -50%
contention 1 thread(s), 3 existing objects 5,541 4,108 -26%
contention 1 thread(s), 3 new objects 26,182 8,802 -66%
contention 1 thread(s), 3 new objects of 16 classes 27,442 8,858 -68%
contention 2 thread(s), no args 17,386 3,083 -82%
contention 2 thread(s), 3 existing objects 14,408 3,552 -75%
contention 2 thread(s), 3 new objects 63,448 5,872 -91%
contention 2 thread(s), 3 new objects of 16 classes 59,982 6,036 -90%
contention 4 thread(s), no args 13,219 2,458 -81%
contention 4 thread(s), 3 existing objects 13,490 3,216 -76%
contention 4 thread(s), 3 new objects 56,063 6,456 -88%
contention 4 thread(s), 3 new objects of 16 classes 57,373 6,777 -88%

The contention rows run with the admission gate's default 50 µs spin. Callback rows are compared raw: the harness's per-round reference callback is itself a callback this PR speeds up.

Earlier, per-commit measurements

The single-allocation link, instance-template wrapper and -Bsymbolic-functions commits, against the previous head of this PR (b63cc516). Optimized runtime, slow clock state, 12 launches each, ns:

benchmark before after Δ
instance.noop() 246 224 -9%
instance.getInt() 247 217 -12%
field.get int 281 264 -6%
instance.takeObject(Object) 533 495 -7%
static.newObjectInJava() [new wrapper] 8,292 2,094 -75%
static.newObjectOfManyClasses() [16 classes] 9,034 2,924 -68%
new java.lang.Object() 6,075 2,607 -57%
new Object.extend({})() 7,708 6,666 -14%
lifecycle new java.lang.Object() [release: V8 gc] 879 479 -46%
lifecycle new java.lang.Object() [release: Java gc] 1,633 1,405 -14%
callback.twoInts(int,int) 2,560 2,430 -5%
callback.oneObject(new Object) 9,490 5,217 -45%

The ObjectTable commit then takes the Java-GC release rows from -14% to about -31% against the same baseline, and leaves the other rows within ±2% apart from instance.takeObject(Object) (+7 ns, see Notes for review).

First access of large classes, in µs. The first table is the static-field commit against the commit before it. The second is the other three commits against the static-field commit, from one launch pair per build in the same clock state with a full GC before each row. First access is measured once per launch, so each value is a median over 8 launches.

first access before static-field commit
android.R.attr 8,914 1,570
android.R.style 6,154 897
android.R.drawable 1,210 896
android.R.id 642 282
first access static-field commit this PR Δ
android.view [package] 816 156 -81%
android.widget [package] 949 168 -82%
android.widget.TextView 1,550 1,005 -35%
android.R.style 875 701 -20%
android.R.attr 1,546 1,279 -17%
android.view.View 2,163 2,039 -6%
android.app.Activity 978 935 -4%
sum of all first-access rows 10,550 7,950 -25%

The non-constructor commit, against the commit before it (same method):

first access before after Δ
android.view.View 2,013 1,534 -24%
android.widget.TextView 997 800 -20%
android.app.Activity 929 763 -18%
sum of all first-access rows 8,060 6,920 -14%

Steady state is unchanged: View.getAlpha() 261 → 259 ns, reading android.view.View through the package 15.6 ns in both, small-class static field reads and writes within ±1%.

The method-name commit, against the commit before it (fast clock state, ns):

benchmark before after Δ
callback.noArgs() 1,896 1,599 -16%
callback.twoInts(int,int) 2,409 2,146 -11%
callback.intReturn(int) -> int 2,519 2,250 -11%
callback.oneString(String) 2,933 2,655 -9%
callback.oneObject(Object) 2,435 2,167 -11%
callback.oneObject(new Object) 8,428 7,670 -9%

JS→Java calls and field reads are unchanged (±1%).

The object-id commit, against the commit before it (fast clock state, ns, 12 launches each):

benchmark before after Δ
callback.twoInts(int,int) 2,217 1,890 -15%
callback.intReturn(int) -> int 2,361 1,985 -16%
callback.oneString(String) 2,743 2,430 -11%
callback.oneObject(Object) 2,202 2,042 -7%
callback.oneObject(new Object) 7,807 7,508 -4%
callback.oneObject(new, 16 classes) 7,411 7,440 +0%

The new-object commits (identity-index hash, cached MetadataNode), against the commit before them (slow clock state, ns, 12 launches each):

benchmark before after Δ
static.newObjectInJava() [new wrapper] 6,613 5,342 -19%
static.newObjectOfManyClasses() [16 classes] 6,004 5,455 -9%
new java.lang.Object() 7,483 6,960 -7%
lifecycle new java.lang.Object() [alloc, kept alive] 7,314 6,759 -8%
lifecycle release: Java gc (3 rows) 1,682-1,720 1,620-1,646 -4%
callback.oneObject(new Object) 11,221 10,478 -7%
callback.oneObject(new, 16 classes) 11,388 10,574 -7%
lifecycle JniBench.newObjectInJava() [alloc, kept alive] 8,515 8,971 +5%

callback.noArgs() is bimodal on this phone: a launch runs at either ~500 or ~1,350-1,700 ns depending on how ART compiles the call path. Before this commit 1 launch in 12 hit the fast mode; after it, 5-7 in 12 did. Its median (1,695 -> 1,308) says little either way.

Re-measured

The first main → PR run above showed first access of android.R ~30 µs slower and small-class final static reads ~4 ns slower, from only 3 main launches in the fast clock state. A re-run with main, six points along this PR's history and its tip, all with the same harness, interleaved, 8 launches each in the fast state, put both within noise: android.R 312 vs 317 µs (history points 300–332), final static read 74 vs 73 ns.

Notes for review

  • Tried and dropped for first access:

    • Lazy prototype methods: these cut View's first access by 40%, but each method's first call got more expensive. With V8's SetLazyDataProperty, 20 first calls took 443 µs instead of 207, and later calls were 5% slower. With an accessor that replaces itself, they took 3.5 ms: the delete makes V8 rebuild the whole prototype's layout.
    • External one-byte strings for metadata names: safe, but slower than internalized strings for short names.
    • Most of View's remaining ~1.5 ms is turning its ~665 methods into JS functions.
  • Tried and dropped for the call path:

    • A per-thread direct ByteBuffer for packed arguments and primitive results, instead of a long[] and JNI array copies, made callbacks with arguments ~200 ns slower: each DirectByteBuffer access is a native call on ART.
    • Merging JEnv's and Runtime's thread-locals into one struct saved 3-4 ns on the simplest JS->Java calls and cost ~20 ns on calls passing objects.
  • Id-indexed tables: before the radix trees, robin_hood::unordered_flat_map and ankerl::unordered_dense::map were measured in place of std::unordered_map for m_idToObject and made the Java-GC release 14-15% and 22-23% slower (sequential ids and libc++'s identity std::hash<int> walk the buckets nearly in order; both re-mix the hash). Pages of 1,024 ids were tried before the radix tree: a long-lived object kept a whole page alive, and moving the survivors of sparse pages to a hash map made every call on a long-lived object (listeners, views) pay a hash lookup, ~11 ns on instance.noop(). With 64-id leaves in 64-leaf chunks a long-lived object keeps at most ~1 KB of each tree alive, and lookups stay direct. Against 1,024-id pages the tree costs ~7 ns on instance.takeObject(Object) (one more dependent load per lookup) and is otherwise within ±2%.

  • Behavior change, wrapper constructor: wrappers the runtime creates for objects coming from Java no longer have an own enumerable constructor property. wrapper.constructor still returns the class through the prototype, but Object.keys(wrapper) goes from ['constructor'] to [], and hasOwnProperty('constructor') is now false. Objects created with new X() never had it. I found no reader in core, the plugins or angular. Wrappers of extended classes created on the Java side no longer get it either. With profilerOutputDir set (see Deprecate the profilerOutputDir profiler and name Java members in V8/DevTools profiles #2100), wrapper.constructor is now the inner, unwrapped constructor, as it already was for new X() instances.

  • Final static fields by class size: in a class with more than 64 static fields (every android.R inner class), a final field is a read-only data property after its first read, so assigning it is silently ignored (or a TypeError in strict mode). Small classes keep throwing the runtime's "final field" error. Kept that way for the read speed.

  • Prototype-held link (ES5 TypeScript layout): __extends-compiled classes (ts_helpers.js) call Java methods on a plain JS object whose prototype is the registered wrapper until __native(this) swaps them, so receiver resolution still checks one prototype level up. It only runs when the object itself has no link.

  • Internal fields: Java wrappers now have three internal fields (JsInfo, CallSuper, Metadata). Array buffers and views are linked to Java buffers through V8's own two embedder fields; IsJsRuntimeObject accepts both counts, and only three-field objects use the Metadata field.

  • Binding generator change: generated bindings (static and runtime extend) get a second field, objectId__ns, and two accessors. Packing the tag and id into one volatile long was measured too and was no faster, so the two fields keep fix(runtime): route Java->JS calls to the runtime that created the binding #2015's accessors unchanged.

  • Behavior change, non-constructors: new view.getAlpha() already threw "No java object found…", because this is not a Java wrapper; it now throws a TypeError (not a constructor). Method functions no longer have a .prototype. Static methods were left constructible on purpose: new SomeClass.staticFactory() returns the factory's object today, and published plugins do this (e.g. new …TransferUtility.builder()). A spec pins that.

  • Gate teardown window: the gate lives in Runtime and inherits the existing teardown window. A Java thread that passes TryGetRuntime while the runtime is being destroyed was already a hazard before this PR.

  • API < 24: there's no StampedLock, so there are no optimistic reads, and every table access stays under the isolate lock as before.

  • Benchmark harness: adding static methods to JniBench slowed its static rows by ~10 ns, through V8's property lookup on the JS constructor. The harness settings therefore live on JniBenchConfig. Any Java class with many statics probably has the same constructor-lookup cost in real apps, and is worth a follow-up.

Does your pull request have unit tests?

Yes.

  • Emulator suite: runtestsAndVerifyResults-equivalent run on an API 36 emulator, 1511 specs, 0 failures. New specs in testMetadata.js ("Java object wrappers") cover constructor through the prototype, a shared prototype for Java-created and JS-created instances, wrapper identity, a wrapper staying linked while thousands of later wrappers are collected, and super read through an implementation object. In testGC.js, a callback that throws after a GC collected wrappers following its last Java call (aborts under CheckJNI without the fix). Two construction-window specs use a small Java helper (NestedConstruction): a binding instance Java creates inside a JS-driven constructor gets its own JS object (failed before the fix: its toString ran the outer object's JS), and a construction made by a callback during another keeps the outer instance (passes with and without the fix; kept as a guard). New specs in testGC.js ("collected wrappers waiting for a flush") cover:
    • a wrapper reacquired before the flush, or while its liveness check is queued;
    • releasing fresh arguments when a call fails before conversion;
    • several threads passing the same new object getting one wrapper;
    • a synchronous loop that never yields.
  • JVM: ObjectTableTest (11 tests, including ids past Integer.MAX_VALUE, including concurrent registration, exact reads during writes, a randomized comparison against reference maps over ~100k ids, and old ids registered after their range was released) and MethodNameIdsTest (3 tests, including 8 threads registering the same names). The runtime unit tests pass, 30/30.
  • Benchmark harness: every callback round now also times a fixed reference callback (ref/refMin in the output), for comparing launches when the callback rows drift on their own.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Improvements
    • Java and JavaScript objects retain consistent identity when passed between runtimes, including during concurrent calls and nested construction.
    • Object cleanup and memory management are more reliable during garbage collection and under memory pressure.
    • Java class member access and object wrappers behave more consistently.
  • Performance
    • Runtime benchmarks cover additional access patterns, callback modes, and thread contention.
  • Testing
    • Expanded coverage for object lifecycle, garbage collection, concurrent access, construction, and runtime performance.

One, two and four Java threads call a JS implementation at once with no
arguments, three existing objects, or three new objects per call. The
benchmark runs asynchronously so the JS thread can release the isolate.
…e lock

com.tns.Runtime kept four maps per runtime (id -> object and object -> id,
each strong and weak), wrapped in synchronizedMap/ConcurrentHashMap when
multithreaded JS is enabled. Every JS wrapper creation, object return and
finalization paid for those locks, a second WeakReference per object, and
NativeScriptHashMap entry allocations.

They are replaced by one ObjectTable: open addressing over the object id and
over System.identityHashCode, no per-entry allocation, no locks. Its rule is
that only the thread holding the runtime's isolate lock touches it, so the
accesses that used to happen in Java before the lock now happen natively
after taking it: the receiver of a multithreaded Java -> JS call and every
object argument are resolved (and new objects registered) in
callJSMethodNative, and createJSInstance registers inside
createJSInstanceNative. With multithreaded JS off the receiver is still
resolved on the runtime's own thread, as before.

Object ids stay monotonic, so native caches keyed by them never see a reused
id. NativeScriptHashMap, NativeScriptWeakHashMap and NativeScriptAbstractMap
have no other users and are removed.
Resolving every object argument natively cost a JNI upcall per argument
inside the lock. ObjectTable gains an optimistic read (StampedLock,
API 24+) that any thread may make: writers, already serialized by the
isolate lock, bracket each mutation with the write stamp, and a reader that
overlaps one gets a miss instead of a torn result. Java passes the ids it
reads this way as hints for the receiver and object arguments; the native
side uses a hint only when it names a still-linked wrapper (ids are never
reused) and resolves exactly under the lock otherwise.
… each

A JS wrapper's finalizer called Java once per collected wrapper, on its first
collection to weaken the Java object and on later ones to ask whether it was
still alive. The finalizer now revives the wrapper and queues its id; one
processFinalizedBatch call weakens or checks the whole batch through two int
arrays and reports the dead ids, whose wrappers are then released. A batch is
flushed inside the finalizer once it reaches 1024 ids, so a long synchronous
JS loop holds at most that many Java objects strongly past their wrappers'
collection, and otherwise from the event loop (V8 runs the GC epilogue before
the finalizers).

Every native upcall into the object table now asserts, in debug builds, that
the calling thread holds the isolate lock.
Finalizers only queue ids now; the batch is flushed when JS next calls into
Java or Java next calls into JS, with the posted event-loop task as the
fallback for a thread that goes idle. JS cannot create or receive a Java
object without crossing, so Java objects kept strong for collected wrappers
cannot pile up during a long synchronous stretch, and nothing calls into
Java or frees other handles inside V8's finalizer pass.

A wrapper handed back to JS while its id is queued is skipped by the flush,
so its Java object is not weakened or released while JS holds it. A failed
flush (Java OOM) is retried after a pause instead of throwing out of a
finalizer or into an unrelated JS call. releaseNativeCounterpart is no
longer public, since it may only run under the isolate lock.
Java hands every class a dense index (once per class per process) and sends
it with each object: packed next to the id hint for Java->JS arguments, and
returned with the id by the single upcall native already makes for returns
and field reads. Native caches the class's JNI name and a global ref of the
object's own class by that index, so wrapping a new object no longer calls
Class.getName() and FindClass, and links the wrapper to the exact runtime
class even when another loader defines the same name. The first sight of a
class also stores it by name, which replaces the last-stored-class shortcut.

An object that already has an id comes back without its class index; native
asks for the class only when it has to create a wrapper.
A Java->JS call with an object JS has never seen used to register it from
native code under the isolate lock, so threads calling in with new objects
serialized on that upcall. packageArgs now registers the object itself
(ObjectTable.findOrRegister: lookup and insert under one write lock, so
concurrent registrations agree on one id) and marks the argument fresh;
native wraps a fresh argument without asking Java again. The exact reads
made under the isolate lock now validate against the same StampedLock,
falling back to its read lock, since writers may be on other threads.

If a call fails before its arguments are converted, the objects it
registered are released again rather than staying strong. Where
StampedLock is missing (API < 24) nothing changes: registration stays
under the isolate lock.
processFinalizedBatch took the table's write lock once per id while other
threads may be registering objects before the isolate lock; it now takes it
once per batch. Wrappers collected during a Java->JS call are settled before
the call releases the isolate, and the idle-thread fallback task is delayed a
few milliseconds so a busy runtime no longer wakes its event loop per GC.
With two Java threads calling into JS, every isolate handoff put the waiter
to sleep: V8's mutex spins only briefly, a call holds the isolate for tens of
microseconds, and waking a sleeper took longer than the call itself, so the
isolate sat idle for a wake-up per call. Java->JS calls now pass a per-runtime
gate before v8::Locker whose waiters spin for up to 50us before sleeping.
Nested calls from a thread that already holds the isolate skip it.
Runtime.setAdmissionSpinMicros changes the budget (negative disables the gate)
for benchmarks.
The phone used for these numbers flips between two clock states about 1.6x
apart, which swamps an A/B across launches. Contention rows can now run
several admission spin budgets round by round inside one launch, and the
number of rounds is configurable. The settings live on JniBenchConfig rather
than JniBench: every static added to JniBench is another property on the JS
constructor its static benchmarks are called through, and two more were
enough to slow those rows by ~10 ns.
ConvertJavaArgsToJsArgs returned early for zero arguments before marking the
call converted, so every Java->JS call without arguments ran
ReleaseUnwrappedArgs' slow path: a JEnv lookup, saving and restoring the
pending exception and three array reads, about a third of the native time of
callback.noArgs(). Calls without arguments now pass null arrays, so they make
no array JNI calls at all.
Arguments crossed as an int[] of types and a long[] of values, so native made
three JNI calls per callback (the length and two region copies) and Java
allocated two arrays. The type ids now ride at the end of the long[], one per
byte, and Java passes the count, so native reads everything with a single
GetLongArrayRegion.
…pcall

Every object constructed from JS made two upcalls after the constructor:
makeInstanceStrong, then getUsedMemory for
Isolate::AdjustAmountOfExternalAllocatedMemory. registerConstructedInstance
does both. TryCallGC also skips its compare-and-swap when no GC was
requested.
Package objects exposed each child (java.lang, android.view...) through a
native data property, so every read of `java.lang.Object` ran the C++ getter
once per segment: a std::string conversion, a private-symbol registry
lookup, and a HasPrivate/GetPrivate pair, even after the child had been
resolved. Children are now lazy data properties: V8 calls the getter once
and replaces the property with the value, so later reads are plain
inline-cached loads. The property keeps its attributes (writable,
enumerable, configurable).
Every `new` and every call to an overloaded method built its cache key as a
fresh std::string, copied each argument's type name into another, and
returned the cached entry by value, copying its signature and return-type
strings again. The key is now built in a reused per-thread buffer (copied out
only to insert, since resolving calls into Java and may re-enter), the cache
is a node map whose entries never move, and lookups return a reference to the
entry. MetadataNode::GetName returns a reference instead of a copy.
The per-isolate constants (prototype, toString, valueOf, ...) were created as
ordinary strings, so each property access keyed by one first had to look it
up in the string table. They are now created internalized.
… a fresh key string

Wrapping a Java object created the empty wrapper by calling an API function
as a constructor (a full JS -> C++ transition into an empty callback), copied
the class's method-callback vector just to confirm its constructor template
existed, and set `constructor` with a newly allocated string. The wrapper is
now instantiated from the function template's instance template (the same
object, without entering the callback), GetConstructorFunction returns the
cached function directly, and `constructor` is a cached internalized string.
Without ELF TLS (minSdk < 29) every thread_local access goes through
__emutls_get_address. JEnv's cached env and its pinned flag, and the
runtime's current runtime and id, were separate thread_locals read together
on every JNI entry and runtime lookup; each pair is now one struct.
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This PR changes Java and native object tracking, packed call arguments, wrapper finalization, and metadata handling. It also adds admission control, updates generated bindings, and expands JNI benchmarks and runtime tests.

Changes: Runtime bridge and wrapper lifecycle

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Benchmark harness and Java benchmark helpers
test-app/app/src/main/assets/app/tests/benchmarks/jniBenchmarks.js, test-app/app/src/main/java/com/tns/tests/*, test-app/app/src/main/assets/app/tests/testGC.js, test-app/app/src/main/assets/app/tests/testMetadata.js
The benchmark runner adds configuration filters, reference callback samples, first-access timings, and contention cases. Java helpers and app tests cover contention workloads, wrapper identity, collection, and metadata behavior.
Binding contract and Java object table
test-app/build-tools/static-binding-generator/..., test-app/runtime-binding-generator/..., test-app/runtime/src/main/java/com/tns/{Runtime.java,ObjectTable.java,MethodNameIds.java,...}, test-app/runtime/src/test/java/com/tns/*
Generated bindings add object-ID fields and accessors. Java runtime state replaces custom object maps with ObjectTable, adds method-name IDs, and packs object and class information with call arguments. The custom map classes are removed.
Native dispatch and admission gate
test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/{AdmissionGate.h,ArgConverter.*,CallbackHandlers.*,JEnv.*,MethodCache.*,Runtime.*,com_tns_Runtime.cpp}, test-app/runtime/CMakeLists.txt
JNI dispatch accepts the Java object, method-name ID, argument count, and packed values. AdmissionGate guards Java-to-JS entry points. JNI environment and method-cache interfaces also change.
Wrapper state, finalization, and metadata
test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/{ObjectManager.*,ObjectIdIndex.h,MetadataNode.*,MetadataReader.h,FieldAccessor.cpp,ArrayHelper.cpp,V8GlobalHelpers.cpp,V8StringConstants.*}
Wrapper links use numeric object IDs and ObjectIdIndex. ObjectManager batches finalization checks and tracks wrapper reacquisition. Metadata changes update wrapper templates, property handling, and metadata storage.

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Change: Refactor

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RuntimeJava as Runtime.java
  participant JNI as com_tns_Runtime.cpp
  participant RuntimeCpp as Runtime.cpp
  participant ArgConverter
  RuntimeJava->>JNI: Send Java object, method ID, and packed arguments
  JNI->>RuntimeCpp: Dispatch callback
  RuntimeCpp->>ArgConverter: Convert packed arguments
  RuntimeCpp-->>JNI: Return callback result
  JNI-->>RuntimeJava: Return converted result
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A rabbit counts each wrapper twice,
Then packs the call with bits precise.
Through gates and queues the callbacks flow,
While Java IDs help wrappers know.
Benchmarks hop through fields and names,
And GC joins their testing games.

…er function each

The first touch of a class installs every static field on its constructor, and
each field got two JS functions (a getter and a setter) built from their own
FunctionTemplates. For android.R.attr that took ~9 ms on the test phone,
android.R.style ~6 ms and android.view.View ~5 ms, per runtime.

A class with more than 64 static fields is now moved to dictionary mode first
(adding properties one by one to a fast-mode object copies its descriptors
each time, which made the native accessors below quadratic) and gets:

- for a final field, a lazy data property: the first read goes through JNI
  and the value replaces the accessor, read-only, so later reads are plain
  property loads (android.R.id.content: 74 ns -> 9 ns);
- for any other field, a native accessor pair instead of two functions.

First access: android.R.attr 8.9 ms -> 1.6 ms, android.R.style 6.2 -> 0.9 ms,
android.view.View 4.9 -> 2.7 ms. Smaller classes keep their accessor
functions. Assigning to a final field of a large class now fails like any
read-only property (a TypeError in strict code) instead of with the runtime's
own error.
A package object gets one lazy property per child, added one by one. On a
fast-mode object each addition copies the descriptors, so android.view
(~800 µs) and android.widget (~950 µs) cost quadratic time on first access.
Packages with more than 64 children now start in dictionary mode, the same
way a class with many static fields does.
V8 internalizes every property name, so a name built from a std::string copy
with kNormal was copied twice more. Names are now created internalized, and
static field names come from a view into the metadata's name table, so
installing a static field no longer reads its name into the entry. The field
accessors read the name on first use instead.
Each method of a class scanned every method of its base class, so a large
class over a large base (TextView over View) did hundreds of thousands of
string comparisons. The base class's methods are now indexed by name once.
When it instantiates a constructible API function, V8 also builds that
function's prototype object, a constructor property on it and an instance
map. A Java class's methods never use them, and a large class has hundreds
of methods (View's first access: 2.0 -> 1.5 ms). Instance methods, field
and property accessors and the runtime's helper functions are now created
with ConstructorBehavior::kThrow. `new view.getAlpha()` already threw (no
Java object behind `this`); it now throws a TypeError.

Class constructors stay constructible, and so do static methods: code like
`new SomeClass.staticFactory()` works today because the factory returns an
object, and published plugins rely on it.
…g it per call

Every Java->JS call copied the method name out of its String with two JNI
calls and internalized it again. Java now gives each name a process-wide
id (a lock-free table keyed on String's cached hash), and each runtime
keeps the V8 string for an id, built the first time it is used.
callback.noArgs: 1,896 -> 1,599 ns; every callback row drops by ~270-300 ns.
…ndex

A Java->JS callback found its target by probing ObjectTable for the
instance's JS object id and boxing its runtime tag into a ConcurrentHashMap
lookup, on every call. Both generators now give bindings an objectId__ns
field next to runtimeTag__ns; initInstance writes it before the tag, and
callJSMethod passes it to native as the id hint (native still checks it).
Runtimes are also indexed by id in an array, and the two AppConfig flags the
call path reads are cached in final fields.
… one array

ObjectTable's identity index held only an id, so checking each probe
candidate meant looking the id up in the id table and dereferencing its
WeakReference. Registering a new object (a miss, then the insert) paid that
for every candidate on its probe path, twice. The index now keeps each
entry's identity hash next to it, and a probe only looks an id up when the
hashes match; findOrRegister also computes the hash once.
…le with its state

Creating a wrapper for a new object looked its class's MetadataNode up by
name (a mutex and a string hash) and made three allocations to link it. The
per-class-index wrapper cache now also keeps the MetadataNode, and the
v8::Persistent is a member of the weak-callback state instead of a separate
allocation.
GetLinkedJsObjectByJavaObject checked the id's entry and then called
GetJsObjectByJavaObject, which looked the same id up again. Both now hand
the entry they found to JsObjectFor.
Callback rows drift with the device's performance state independently of
the other rows. Each round now also times a fixed twoInts callback on its
own object and reports it as ref/refMin, so launches can be compared by
median / ref.
Link allocated a JSInstanceInfo, a weak-callback state that duplicated
its id, a V8 External pointing at the JSInstanceInfo, and a node in the
id map. JSInstanceInfo is now part of the state, the wrapper's JsInfo
field holds the object id + 1 instead of an External, and the id map is
a radix tree indexed by id.

Ids are never reused, so a field left on a stale alias resolves to no
state rather than to freed memory, and a leaf or chunk of the tree that
empties is freed unless it is the newest. Leaves (64 ids) and chunks (64
leaves) are small, so a long-lived wrapper keeps at most ~1 KB of the
tree alive. The + 1 keeps the zero V8 stores in an array buffer's
embedder fields from reading as a link.
A wrapper was an empty object from a shared template that then got an
own `constructor` property, a new prototype and a private property
holding a fresh External to its MetadataNode. Each step was a map
transition off one shared map, and the per-class `constructor` values
kept generalizing that map's field, so V8 spent most of a wrapper's
creation migrating and searching maps.

Wrappers now come from the class constructor's instance template, which
starts them on the class's own initial map with the right prototype. The
MetadataNode goes in a new internal field, as one External per class per
runtime shared by all its instances; `new` uses the same field.
Wrappers no longer have an own `constructor`: it resolves through the
prototype to the same function.

Array buffers and views are linked to Java buffers through V8's own two
embedder fields and have no Metadata field; they keep the private
property.
The id side of the table was an open-addressing hash on the id that
doubled and rehashed as it grew. It is now a radix tree indexed by id
(64-id leaves in 64-leaf chunks), holding each entry's value and
identity hash: lookups are three array loads, there is no rehash, and a
leaf or chunk that empties is dropped unless it is the newest, as on
the native side. The identity index is unchanged.
The regular runtime exports everything in the static V8 monolith, so
every call between those functions went through the PLT: 45,008 of the
library's 45,279 jump slots pointed back into the library itself.
-Bsymbolic-functions binds them at link time. Exported functions stay
callable from plugins and data symbols stay interposable. The optimized
runtimes hide V8's internals with a version script and already had only
271 jump slots; this leaves them unchanged.
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Review comments at @test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/com_tns_Runtime.cpp:
- Around line 228-232: Update the finalizer flush in the callback cleanup path
around ReleaseUnwrappedArgs and FlushFinalizedBatchIfPending to preserve any
pending Java exception: save and clear it before flushing, then restore it
afterward so the flush runs without a pending exception and the callback
exception still propagates.

Review comments at @test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/MetadataNode.cpp:
- Around line 1378-1380: Update SetInstanceMetadata to handle a null node before
calling GetInstanceData, store the appropriate empty metadata value in the
object's Metadata internal field, and return; preserve the existing metadata
assignment for non-null nodes.

Review comments at @test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/MethodCache.cpp:
- Around line 44-51: Update ResolveMethodSignature and
ResolveConstructorSignature so signature encoding cannot be corrupted by a
nested lookup during JavaScript coercion. Encode each lookup into a buffer that
remains independent while user JavaScript runs, preserving the existing cache
lookup and capacity-reuse behavior without sharing a mutable key across
reentrant calls.

Review comments at @test-app/runtime/src/main/java/com/tns/Runtime.java:
- Around line 1153-1160: Update getOrCreateJavaObjectIDAndClass and
getOrCreateJavaObjectID to use ObjectTable.findOrRegister with objectIds when
allowsConcurrentRegistration() is true, so lookup and registration are atomic.
Reuse the existing ID when the object was already registered, and preserve the
current initialization and return behavior for newly registered objects; leave
the existing path unchanged when concurrent registration is disabled.

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- A Java->JS call that threw returned through FlushFinalizedBatch with its
  Java exception pending: the flush made JNI calls with it pending (CheckJNI
  aborts) and then took it for its own failure and cleared it, so the caller
  got null. A flush now leaves a pending exception alone and defers to the
  scheduled flush task.
- Reading `super` through an object that is not a Java instance (an
  implementation object) dereferenced a null MetadataNode; the metadata
  field is left undefined, as before.
- getOrCreateJavaObjectID(AndClass) looked an object up and registered it
  in two steps while other threads may register call arguments without the
  isolate lock; a miss now registers through findOrRegister.
- Object ids are unsigned 32-bit values in both id indexes, with only -1
  reserved, so ids past 2^31 keep working as they did with the hash maps.
- Package children are read-only again, as main's setter-less native data
  properties were.
- A method signature key is encoded without running JS (Number objects are
  read with ValueOf), so a re-entrant lookup cannot clobber the shared key.
- Debug check against linking one id twice; m_isolate is initialized;
  releaseNativeCounterpart is public again; comments corrected.

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While JS constructs a Java object, the native side publishes the id it
reserved in Runtime.currentObjectId, and the binding's initInstance takes
it. Any other binding instance whose initInstance ran in that window took
the same id: an instance Java created there (by reflection, or a custom
view inflated by the constructor) was registered under the outer id, and
since bindings now carry their id, its callbacks ran on the outer object's
JS. The class being constructed is now published with the id, and only an
instance of exactly that class takes it, once; others get their own JS
object as Java-created instances do.

The scope also restored -1 instead of the enclosing construction's id when
a callback made by a constructor constructed another object. It now
restores the enclosing id and class. The class is written only when it
changes, so constructing one class repeatedly costs the same two field
writes as before.

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packageArgs probed ObjectTable's identity index for every object argument.
A binding of the receiving runtime (a NativeScriptRuntimeBound whose tag
matches) carries its object id, written before the tag and never reused,
so it is passed as the hint instead; native resolves it like any other
hint and falls back to the exact lookup when it no longer names a linked
wrapper. The new benchmark row passes the callback object itself.
…mplate

When Java creates an instance of an extended class (an Activity, an
inflated custom view, reflection), its JS object was an empty object from
the shared wrapper template that then got a new prototype and an own
`constructor`. It now comes from the extended class's instance template,
already on its own map with the right prototype, like other wrappers, and
without an own `constructor`. The new benchmark row instantiates an
extended class from Java.

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Major · Check for the dead-ID sentinel, not the sign. · ObjectManager.cpp:696-702

test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/ObjectManager.cpp:696-702
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Check for the dead-ID sentinel, not the sign.

When a live ID exceeds INT_MAX, Java returns it as a negative int. This branch removes its wrapper, so a later callback can fail and wrapper reacquisition can lose its JavaScript state.

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-      if (results[i] < 0) {
+      if (results[i] == -1) {
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Review comment at @test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/ObjectManager.cpp around lines 696 - 702:
Update the results check in the loop that calls ReleaseCollectedWrapper so it recognizes only the dead-ID sentinel, rather than treating every negative Java int as dead. Preserve live IDs even when their int representation is negative.

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…totype

V8 copies instances of a template from a cached first instantiation, which
keeps the prototype the extended class had then: after code reassigns the
class's `prototype` property, Java-created instances still got the old one
(the new spec fails without this). The wrapper now checks the class's
current prototype and only sets it when it differs, which never happens
unless the property was reassigned; a profile of the Java-created
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@edusperoni
edusperoni merged commit 35cca0e into main Nov 11, 2026
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edusperoni deleted the perf/object-slot-table branch November 11, 2026 02:26
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