Replaces expectSyncExit() and expectSyncExitWithoutError(). Since
we usually just check the child process right after its spawned,
these shorthands also takes care of the spawning. This makes the
tests more concise.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/49200
Reviewed-By: LiviaMedeiros <livia@cirno.name>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
The API is now available to user-land run-time snapshots. So update
the example. This also makes the intention of the examples a bit
clearer and test it in our test suite.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/47468
Reviewed-By: Chengzhong Wu <legendecas@gmail.com>
It's difficult for V8 to handle Error.stackTraceLimit in the snapshot,
so delete it from the Error constructor if it's present before
snapshot serialization, and re-install it after deserialization.
In addition try not to touch it from our internals during snapshot
building in the first place by updating
isErrorStackTraceLimitWritable().
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/44203
Reviewed-By: Chengzhong Wu <legendecas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
This patch introduces `--build-snapshot` and `--snapshot-blob` options
for creating and using user land snapshots.
For the initial iteration, user land CJS modules and ESM are not yet
supported in the snapshot, so only one single file can be snapshotted
(users can bundle their applications into a single script with their
bundler of choice to build a snapshot though).
A subset of builtins should already work, and support for more builtins
are being added. This PR includes tests checking that the TypeScript
compiler and the marked markdown renderer (and the builtins they use)
can be snapshotted and deserialized.
To generate a snapshot using `snapshot.js` as entry point and write the
snapshot blob to `snapshot.blob`:
```
$ echo "globalThis.foo = 'I am from the snapshot'" > snapshot.js
$ node --snapshot-blob snapshot.blob --build-snapshot snapshot.js
```
To restore application state from `snapshot.blob`, with `index.js` as
the entry point script for the deserialized application:
```
$ echo "console.log(globalThis.foo)" > index.js
$ node --snapshot-blob snapshot.blob index.js
I am from the snapshot
```
Users can also use the `v8.startupSnapshot` API to specify an entry
point at snapshot building time, thus avoiding the need of an additional
entry script at deserialization time:
```
$ echo "require('v8').startupSnapshot.setDeserializeMainFunction(() => console.log('I am from the snapshot'))" > snapshot.js
$ node --snapshot-blob snapshot.blob --build-snapshot snapshot.js
$ node --snapshot-blob snapshot.blob
I am from the snapshot
```
Note that this patch only adds functionality to the `node` executable
for building run-time user-land snapshots, the generated snapshot is
stored into a separate file on disk. Building a single binary with both
Node.js and an embedded snapshot has already been possible with the
`--node-snapshot-main` option to the `configure` script if the user
compiles Node.js from source. It would be a different task to enable the
`node` executable to produce a single binary that contains both Node.js
and an embedded snapshot without building Node.js from source, which
should be layered on top of the SEA (Single Executable Apps) initiative.
Known limitations/bugs that are being fixed in the upstream:
- V8 hits a DCHECK when deserializing certain mutated globals, e.g.
`Error.stackTraceLimit` (it should work fine in the release build,
however): 3319481
- Layout of V8's read-only heap can be inconsistent after
deserialization, resulting in memory corruption:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=12921
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/38905
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/35711
Reviewed-By: Chengzhong Wu <legendecas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
