* Add `*_unchecked` variants of `Func` APIs for the C API
This commit is what is hopefully going to be my last installment within
the saga of optimizing function calls in/out of WebAssembly modules in
the C API. This is yet another alternative approach to #3345 (sorry) but
also contains everything necessary to make the C API fast. As in #3345
the general idea is just moving checks out of the call path in the same
style of `TypedFunc`.
This new strategy takes inspiration from previously learned attempts
effectively "just" exposes how we previously passed `*mut u128` through
trampolines for arguments/results. This storage format is formalized
through a new `ValRaw` union that is exposed from the `wasmtime` crate.
By doing this it made it relatively easy to expose two new APIs:
* `Func::new_unchecked`
* `Func::call_unchecked`
These are the same as their checked equivalents except that they're
`unsafe` and they work with `*mut ValRaw` rather than safe slices of
`Val`. Working with these eschews type checks and such and requires
callers/embedders to do the right thing.
These two new functions are then exposed via the C API with new
functions, enabling C to have a fast-path of calling/defining functions.
This fast path is akin to `Func::wrap` in Rust, although that API can't
be built in C due to C not having generics in the same way that Rust
has.
For some benchmarks, the benchmarks here are:
* `nop` - Call a wasm function from the host that does nothing and
returns nothing.
* `i64` - Call a wasm function from the host, the wasm function calls a
host function, and the host function returns an `i64` all the way out to
the original caller.
* `many` - Call a wasm function from the host, the wasm calls
host function with 5 `i32` parameters, and then an `i64` result is
returned back to the original host
* `i64` host - just the overhead of the wasm calling the host, so the
wasm calls the host function in a loop.
* `many` host - same as `i64` host, but calling the `many` host function.
All numbers in this table are in nanoseconds, and this is just one
measurement as well so there's bound to be some variation in the precise
numbers here.
| Name | Rust | C (before) | C (after) |
|-----------|------|------------|-----------|
| nop | 19 | 112 | 25 |
| i64 | 22 | 207 | 32 |
| many | 27 | 189 | 34 |
| i64 host | 2 | 38 | 5 |
| many host | 7 | 75 | 8 |
The main conclusion here is that the C API is significantly faster than
before when using the `*_unchecked` variants of APIs. The Rust
implementation is still the ceiling (or floor I guess?) for performance
The main reason that C is slower than Rust is that a little bit more has
to travel through memory where on the Rust side of things we can
monomorphize and inline a bit more to get rid of that. Overall though
the costs are way way down from where they were originally and I don't
plan on doing a whole lot more myself at this time. There's various
things we theoretically could do I've considered but implementation-wise
I think they'll be much more weighty.
* Tweak `wasmtime_externref_t` API comments
Implement Wasmtime's new API as designed by RFC 11. This is quite a large commit which has had lots of discussion externally, so for more information it's best to read the RFC thread and the PR thread.
This commit fixes `Clone for wasm_val_t` to avoid attempting to chase a
null pointer. It also fixes the implementation for `FuncRef` values by
cloning their internal `wasm_ref_t` as well.
* wasmtime-c-api: Only drop non-null `*mut wasm_ref_t`s
* wasmtime-c-api: Handle null refs in `wasm_val_t` to `Val` conversion
* wasmtime-c-api: Don't unwrap and rewrap `Option`s
The `unwrap` can panic, and there isn't any point to this unwrap+rewrap.
* wasmtime-c-api: Add conversions between `funcref` and `wasm_func_t`
* wasmtime-c-api: More ownership documentation for `wasmtime.h`
This required that `wasm_val_t` have a `Drop` implementation, an explicit
`Clone` implementation, and no longer be `Copy`, which rippled out through the
crate a bit.
Additionally, `wasm_func_call` and friends were creating references to
uninitialized data for its out pointers and assigning to them. As soon as
`wasm_val_t` gained a `Drop` impl and tried to drop the old value of the
assignment (which is uninitialized data), then things blew up. The fix is to
properly represent the out pointers with `MaybeUninit`, and use `ptr::write` to
initialize them without dropping the old data.
Part of #929
* Refactor and improve safety of C API
This commit is intended to be a relatively large refactoring of the C
API which is targeted at improving the safety of our C API definitions.
Not all of the APIs have been updated yet but this is intended to be the
start.
The goal here is to make as many functions safe as we can, expressing
inputs/outputs as native Rust types rather than raw pointers wherever
possible. For example instead of `*const wasm_foo_t` we'd take
`&wasm_foo_t`. Instead of returning `*mut wasm_foo_t` we'd return
`Box<wasm_foo_t>`. No ABI/API changes are intended from this commit,
it's supposed to only change how we define all these functions
internally.
This commit also additionally implements a few more API bindings for
exposed vector types by unifying everything into one macro.
Finally, this commit moves many internal caches in the C API to the
`OnceCell` type which provides a safe interface for one-time
initialization.
* Split apart monolithic C API `lib.rs`
This commit splits the monolithic `src/lib.rs` in the C API crate into
lots of smaller files. The goal here is to make this a bit more readable
and digestable. Each module now contains only API bindings for a
particular type, roughly organized around the grouping in the wasm.h
header file already.
A few more extensions were added, such as filling out `*_as_*`
conversions with both const and non-const versions. Additionally many
APIs were made safer in the same style as the previous commit, generally
preferring Rust types rather than raw pointer types.
Overall no functional change is intended here, it should be mostly just
code movement and minor refactorings!
* Make a few wasi C bindings safer
Use safe Rust types where we can and touch up a few APIs here and there.
* Implement `wasm_*type_as_externtype*` APIs
This commit restructures `wasm_externtype_t` to be similar to
`wasm_extern_t` so type conversion between the `*_extern_*` variants to
the concrete variants are all simple casts. (checked in the case of
general to concrete, of course).
* Consistently imlpement host info functions in the API
This commit adds a small macro crate which is then used to consistently
define the various host-info-related functions in the C API. The goal
here is to try to mirror what the `wasm.h` header provides to provide a
full implementation of the header.
