Building o//third_party/python now takes 5 seconds on my PC
This change works towards modifying Python to use runtime dispatching
when appropriate. For example, when loading the magnums in the socket
module, it's a good idea to check if the magnum is zero, because that
means the local system platform doesn't support it.
This change boosts SSL handshake performance from 2,627 to ~10,000 per
second which is the same level of performance as NGINX at establishing
secure connections. That's impressive if we consider that redbean is a
forking frontend application server. This was accomplished by:
1. Enabling either SSL session caching or SSL tickets. We choose to
use tickets since they reduce network round trips too and that's
a more important metric than wrk'ing localhost.
2. Fixing mbedtls_mpi_sub_abs() which is the most frequently called
function. It's called about 12,000 times during an SSL handshake
since it's the basis of most arithmetic operations like addition
and for some strange reason it was designed to make two needless
copies in addition to calling malloc and free. That's now fixed.
3. Improving TLS output buffering during the SSL handshake only, so
that only a single is write and read system call is needed until
blocking on the ping pong.
redbean will now do a better job wiping sensitive memory from a child
process as soon as it's not needed. The nice thing about fork is it's
much faster than reverse proxying so the goal is to use the different
address spaces along with setuid() to minimize the risk that a server
key will be compromised in the event that application code is hacked.
Cosmopolitan's QuickJS is now equally conformant and performant, with
the exception of Atomics, which have been disabled since Cosmopolitan
currently doesn't support pthreads.
QuickJS memory usage -- BigNum 2021-03-27 version, 64-bit, malloc limit: -1
NAME COUNT SIZE
memory allocated 937 131764 (140.6 per block)
memory used 938 116103 (8 overhead, 16.7 average slack)
atoms 513 21408 (41.7 per atom)
objects 170 12279 (72.2 per object)
properties 864 15531 (5.1 per object)
shapes 58 12995 (224.1 per shape)
bytecode functions 13 1512
bytecode 13 867 (66.7 per function)
C functions 99
arrays 1
fast arrays 1
elements 1 16 (1.0 per fast array)
Result: 35/74740 errors, 1279 excluded, 485 skipped, 19 new, 2 fixed
real 2m40.828s
user 2m29.764s
sys 0m10.939s
- Polyfill ucontext_t on FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD
- Add tests confirming signals can edit CPU state
- Work towards supporting ZIP filesystem on bare metal
- Add more tinymath unit tests for POSIX conformance
- Add X87 and SSE status flags to crash report
- Fix some bugs in blinkenlights
- Fix llvm build breakage
It turned out that the linker was doing the wrong with the amalgamation
library concerning weak stubs. A regression test has been added and new
binaries have been uploaded to https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/
Ideally this should be fixed by building a tool that turns multiple .a
files into a single .a file with deduplication. As a workaround for now
the cosmopolitan.a build is restructured to not include LIBC_STUBS which
meant technical debt needed to be paid off where non-stub interfaces
were moved to LIBC_INTRIN and LIBC_NEXGEN32E.
Thank @PerfectProductions in #31 for the report!
This program popped up on Hacker News recently. It's the only modern
compiler I've ever seen that doesn't have dependencies and is easily
modified. So I added all of the missing GNU extensions I like to use
which means it might be possible soon to build on non-Linux and have
third party not vendor gcc binaries.
