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https://bellard.org/quickjs

Some benefits over SM:

 * Small. We're using 6 or so C files vs 700+ SM91 C++ files.

 * Built with Apache CouchDB as opposed having to maintain a separate SM
   package, like for RHEL9, for instance, where they dropped support for SM
   already. (see #4154).

 * Embedding friendly. Designed from ground-up for embedding. SM has been
   updating the C++ API such that we have to keep copy-pasting new versions of
   our C++ code every year or so. (see
   #4305).

 * Easy to modify to accept Spidermonkey 1.8.5 top level functions for
   map/reduce code so we don't have have to parse the JS, AST transform it, and
   then re-compile it.

 * Configurable runtime feature set - can disable workers, promises and other
   API and features which may not work well in a backend JS environment. Some
   users may want more, some may want to disable even Date(time) features to
   hedge again Spectre-style attacks (spectreattack.com).

 * Allows granular time (reduction) tracking if we wanted to provide a runtime
   allowance for each function.

 * Better sandboxing. Creating a whole JSRuntime takes only 300 microseconds, so
   we can afford to do that on reset. JSRuntimes cannot share JS data or object
   between them.

 * Seems to be faster in preliminary benchmarking with small
   concurrent VDU and view builds:
     https://gist.github.com/nickva/ed239651114794ebb138b1f16c5f6758
   Results seem promising:
     - 4x faster than SM 1.8.5
     - 5x faster than SM 91
     - 6x reduced memory usage per couchjs process (5MB vs 30MB)

 * Allows compiling JS bytecode ahead of time a C array of bytes.

QuickJS can be built alongside Spidermonkey and toggled on/off at runtime:

```
./configure --dev --js-engine=quickjs
```

This makes it the default engine. But Spidermonkey can still be set in the
config option.

```
[couchdb]
js_engine = spidermonkey | quickjs
```

To test individual views, without switching the default use the
`javascript_quickjs` language in the design docs. To keep using Spidermonkey
engine after switching the default, can use `javascript_spidermonkey` language
in design docs. However, language selection will reset the view and the view
will have to be rebuilt.

Tested on MacOS and Linux. All `make check` tests pass there.

Issue: #4448
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24 changes: 24 additions & 0 deletions LICENSE
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Expand Up @@ -2308,3 +2308,27 @@ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
For the QuickJS component couch_js/quickjs/quickjs:

QuickJS Javascript Engine

Copyright (c) 2017-2021 Fabrice Bellard
Copyright (c) 2017-2021 Charlie Gordon

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.
6 changes: 5 additions & 1 deletion build-aux/Jenkinsfile.pr
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cd build
tar -xf ${WORKSPACE}/apache-couchdb-*.tar.gz
cd apache-couchdb-*
./configure --enable-nouveau --enable-clouseau
./configure --enable-nouveau --enable-clouseau --js-engine=${JS_ENGINE}
make check || (make build-report && false)
'''

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name 'SM_VSN'
values '78'
}
axis {
name 'JS_ENGINE'
values 'quickjs', 'spidermonkey'
}
}

stages {
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25 changes: 24 additions & 1 deletion configure
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}

COUCHDB_USER="$(whoami 2>/dev/null || echo couchdb)"
JS_ENGINE=${JS_ENGINE:-"spidermonkey"}
SM_VSN=${SM_VSN:-"91"}
CLOUSEAU_MTH=${CLOUSEAU_MTH:-"dist"}
CLOUSEAU_URI=${CLOUSEAU_URI:-"https://github.com/cloudant-labs/clouseau/releases/download/%s/clouseau-%s-dist.zip"}
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--rebar=PATH use rebar by specified path (version >=2.6.0 && <3.0 required)
--rebar3=PATH use rebar3 by specified path
--erlfmt=PATH use erlfmt by specified path
--js-engine=ENGINE default js engine: spidermonkey or quickjs
EOF
}

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printf 'ERROR: "--spidermonkey-version" requires a non-empty argument.\n' >&2
exit 1
;;
--js-engine)
if [ -n "$2" ]; then
eval JS_ENGINE=$2
shift 2
continue
else
printf 'ERROR: "--js-engine" requires a non-empty argument.\n' >&2
exit 1
fi
;;
--js-engine=?*)
eval JS_ENGINE=${1#*=}
;;
--js-engine=)
printf 'ERROR: "--js-engine" requires a non-empty argument.\n' >&2
exit 1
;;


--clouseau-version)
if [ -n "$2" ]; then
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exit 1
fi

if [ "${ERLANG_OS}" = "unix" ]; then
if [ "${JS_ENGINE}" = "spidermonkey" ] && [ "${ERLANG_OS}" = "unix" ]; then
case "${SM_VSN}" in
1.8.5)
SM_HEADERS="js"
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{log_file, "$LOG_FILE"}.
{fauxton_root, "./share/www"}.
{user, "$COUCHDB_USER"}.
{js_engine, "$JS_ENGINE"}.
{spidermonkey_version, "$SM_VSN"}.
{node_name, "-name couchdb@127.0.0.1"}.
{cluster_port, 5984}.
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with_clouseau = $WITH_CLOUSEAU
user = $COUCHDB_USER
js_engine = $JS_ENGINE
spidermonkey_version = $SM_VSN
EOF

cat > $rootdir/config.erl << EOF
{with_proper, $WITH_PROPER}.
{erlang_md5, $ERLANG_MD5}.
{js_engine, "$JS_ENGINE"}.
{spidermonkey_version, "$SM_VSN"}.
EOF

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"src/b64url",
"src/exxhash",
"src/ets_lru",
"src/couch_quickjs",
"src/chttpd",
"src/couch",
"src/couch_event",
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; checksums can be read and verified.
;write_xxhash_checksums = false

; Javascript engine. The choices are: spidermonkey and quickjs
;js_engine = spidermonkey

[purge]
; Allowed maximum number of documents in one purge request
;max_document_id_number = 100
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;max_objects = 10000
;max_idle = 600000
;enable = true

[quickjs]
; Memory limit in bytes. Default is undefined and so the built-in C default
; of 64MB is used
;memory_limit_bytes = 67108864
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%% couchdb
b64url,
exxhash,
couch_quickjs,
chttpd,
config,
couch,
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%% couchdb
{app, b64url, [{incl_cond, include}]},
{app, exxhash, [{incl_cond, include}]},
{app, couch_quickjs, [{incl_cond, include}]},
{app, chttpd, [{incl_cond, include}]},
{app, config, [{incl_cond, include}]},
{app, couch, [{incl_cond, include}]},
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// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
// use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
// the License at
//
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
// WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
// License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
// the License.

function create_sandbox() {
var sandbox = {};
sandbox.emit = Views.emit;
sandbox.sum = Views.sum;
sandbox.log = log;
sandbox.toJSON = JSON.stringify;
sandbox.JSON = JSON;
sandbox.provides = Mime.provides;
sandbox.registerType = Mime.registerType;
sandbox.start = Render.start;
sandbox.send = Render.send;
sandbox.getRow = Render.getRow;
sandbox.isArray = isArray;
return sandbox;
};

function create_filter_sandbox() {
var sandbox = create_sandbox();
sandbox.emit = Filter.emit;
return sandbox;
};

function create_dreyfus_sandbox() {
var sandbox = create_sandbox();
sandbox.index = Dreyfus.index;
return sandbox;
};

function create_nouveau_sandbox() {
var sandbox = create_sandbox();
sandbox.index = Nouveau.index;
return sandbox;
};

function seal(obj, flag) {
Object.freeze(obj);
};

// This is a copy from loop.js
var DDoc = (function() {
var ddoc_dispatch = {
"lists" : Render.list,
"shows" : Render.show,
"filters" : Filter.filter,
"views" : Filter.filter_view,
"updates" : Render.update,
"validate_doc_update" : Validate.validate,
"rewrites" : Render.rewrite
};
var ddocs = {};
return {
ddoc : function() {
var args = [];
for (var i=0; i < arguments.length; i++) {
args.push(arguments[i]);
};
var ddocId = args.shift();
if (ddocId == "new") {
// get the real ddocId.
ddocId = args.shift();
// store the ddoc, functions are lazily compiled.
ddocs[ddocId] = args.shift();
print("true");
} else {
// Couch makes sure we know this ddoc already.
var ddoc = ddocs[ddocId];
if (!ddoc) throw(["fatal", "query_protocol_error", "uncached design doc: "+ddocId]);
var funPath = args.shift();
var cmd = funPath[0];
// the first member of the fun path determines the type of operation
var funArgs = args.shift();
if (ddoc_dispatch[cmd]) {
// get the function, call the command with it
var point = ddoc;
for (var i=0; i < funPath.length; i++) {
if (i+1 == funPath.length) {
var fun = point[funPath[i]];
if (!fun) {
throw(["error","not_found",
"missing " + funPath[0] + " function " + funPath[i] +
" on design doc " + ddocId]);
}
if (typeof fun != "function") {
// For filter_view we want the emit() function
// to be overridden and just toggle a flag instead of
// accumulating rows
var sandbox = (cmd === "views") ? create_filter_sandbox() : create_sandbox();
fun = Couch.compileFunction(fun, ddoc, funPath.join('.'), sandbox);
// cache the compiled fun on the ddoc
point[funPath[i]] = fun;
};
} else {
point = point[funPath[i]];
}
};

// run the correct responder with the cmd body
ddoc_dispatch[cmd].apply(null, [fun, ddoc, funArgs]);
} else {
// unknown command, quit and hope the restarted version is better
throw(["fatal", "unknown_command", "unknown ddoc command '" + cmd + "'"]);
}
}
}
};
})();

// This mostly a copy from loop.js handleError
function handleError(e) {
if (e === null) {
// internal error, another possibility when out of memory
// nothing to do except rethrow and let main.c catch it and exit(1)
throw(null);
}
const type = e[0];
if (type == "fatal") {
e[0] = "error"; // we tell the client it was a fatal error by dying
respond(e);
return false;
} else if (type == "error") {
respond(e);
return true;
} else if (e.name == "InternalError") {
// If the internal error is caught by handleViewError it will be
// re-thrown as a ["fatal", ...] error, and we already handle that above.
// Here we handle the case when the error is thrown outside of
// handleViewError, for instance when serializing the rows to be sent
// back to the user
respond(["error", e.name, e.message]);
return false;
} else if (e.error && e.reason) {
// compatibility with old error format
respond(["error", e.error, e.reason]);
return true;
} else if (e.name) {
respond(["error", e.name, e]);
return true;
} else {
respond(["error","unnamed_error", e.stack]);
return true;
}
};

globalThis.dispatch = function(line) {
const cmd = JSON.parse(line);
State.line_length = line.length;
try {
switch (cmd.shift()) {
case "ddoc":
DDoc.ddoc.apply(null, cmd);
break;
case "reset":
State.reset.apply(null, cmd);
break;
case "add_fun":
State.addFun.apply(null, cmd);
break;
case "add_lib":
State.addLib.apply(null, cmd);
break;
case "map_doc":
Views.mapDoc.apply(null, cmd);
break;
case "index_doc":
Dreyfus.indexDoc.apply(null, cmd);
break;
case "nouveau_index_doc":
Nouveau.indexDoc.apply(null, cmd);
break;
case "reduce":
Views.reduce.apply(null, cmd);
break;
case "rereduce":
Views.rereduce.apply(null, cmd);
break;
default:
// unknown command, quit and hope the restarted version is better
throw(["fatal", "unknown_command", "unknown command '" + cmdkey + "'"]);
}
} catch(e) {
return handleError(e);
};
return true;
};
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} else if (err[0] == "fatal") {
throw(err);
}
var message = "function raised exception " + err.toSource();
var message = "function raised exception " + errstr(err);
if (doc) message += " with doc._id " + doc._id;
log(message);
};
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throw(e);
} else {
var logMessage = "function raised error: " +
e.toSource() + " \n" +
errstr(e) + " \n" +
"stacktrace: " + e.stack;
log(logMessage);
throw(["error", errType || "render_error", logMessage]);
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