The seq serialization machinery is a historic artifact from when Go
mobile code had to run in a separate process. Now that Go code is running
in-process, replace the explicit serialization with direct calls and pass
arguments on the stack.
The benefits are a much smaller bind runtime, much less garbage (and, in
Java, fewer objects with finalizers), less argument copying, and faster
cross-language calls.
The cost is a more complex generator, because some of the work from the
bind runtime is moved to generated code. Generated code now handles
conversion between Go and Java/ObjC types, multiple return values and memory
management of byte slice and string arguments.
To overcome the lack of calling C code between Go packages, all bound
packages now end up in the same (fake) package, "gomobile_bind", instead of
separate packages (go_<pkgname>). To avoid name clashes, the package name is
added as a prefix to generated functions and types.
Also, don't copy byte arrays passed to Go, saving call time and
allowing read([]byte)-style interfaces to foreign callers (#12113).
Finally, add support for nil interfaces and struct pointers to objc.
This is a large CL, but most of the changes stem from changing testdata.
The full benchcmp output on the CL/20095 benchmarks on my Nexus 5 is
reproduced below. Note that the savings for the JavaSlice* benchmarks are
skewed because byte slices are no longer copied before passing them to Go.
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
BenchmarkJavaEmpty 26.0 19.0 -26.92%
BenchmarkJavaEmptyDirect 23.0 22.0 -4.35%
BenchmarkJavaNoargs 7685 2339 -69.56%
BenchmarkJavaNoargsDirect 17405 8041 -53.80%
BenchmarkJavaOnearg 26887 2366 -91.20%
BenchmarkJavaOneargDirect 34266 7910 -76.92%
BenchmarkJavaOneret 38325 2245 -94.14%
BenchmarkJavaOneretDirect 46265 7708 -83.34%
BenchmarkJavaManyargs 41720 2535 -93.92%
BenchmarkJavaManyargsDirect 51026 8373 -83.59%
BenchmarkJavaRefjava 38139 21260 -44.26%
BenchmarkJavaRefjavaDirect 42706 28150 -34.08%
BenchmarkJavaRefgo 34403 6843 -80.11%
BenchmarkJavaRefgoDirect 40193 16582 -58.74%
BenchmarkJavaStringShort 32366 9323 -71.20%
BenchmarkJavaStringShortDirect 41973 19118 -54.45%
BenchmarkJavaStringLong 127879 94420 -26.16%
BenchmarkJavaStringLongDirect 133776 114760 -14.21%
BenchmarkJavaStringShortUnicode 32562 9221 -71.68%
BenchmarkJavaStringShortUnicodeDirect 41464 19094 -53.95%
BenchmarkJavaStringLongUnicode 131015 89401 -31.76%
BenchmarkJavaStringLongUnicodeDirect 134130 90786 -32.31%
BenchmarkJavaSliceShort 42462 7538 -82.25%
BenchmarkJavaSliceShortDirect 52940 17017 -67.86%
BenchmarkJavaSliceLong 138391 8466 -93.88%
BenchmarkJavaSliceLongDirect 205804 15666 -92.39%
BenchmarkGoEmpty 3.00 3.00 +0.00%
BenchmarkGoEmptyDirect 3.00 3.00 +0.00%
BenchmarkGoNoarg 40342 13716 -66.00%
BenchmarkGoNoargDirect 46691 13569 -70.94%
BenchmarkGoOnearg 43529 13757 -68.40%
BenchmarkGoOneargDirect 44867 14078 -68.62%
BenchmarkGoOneret 45456 13559 -70.17%
BenchmarkGoOneretDirect 44694 13442 -69.92%
BenchmarkGoRefjava 55111 28071 -49.06%
BenchmarkGoRefjavaDirect 60883 26872 -55.86%
BenchmarkGoRefgo 57038 29223 -48.77%
BenchmarkGoRefgoDirect 56153 27812 -50.47%
BenchmarkGoManyargs 67967 17398 -74.40%
BenchmarkGoManyargsDirect 60617 16998 -71.96%
BenchmarkGoStringShort 57538 22600 -60.72%
BenchmarkGoStringShortDirect 52627 22704 -56.86%
BenchmarkGoStringLong 128485 52530 -59.12%
BenchmarkGoStringLongDirect 138377 52079 -62.36%
BenchmarkGoStringShortUnicode 57062 22994 -59.70%
BenchmarkGoStringShortUnicodeDirect 62563 22938 -63.34%
BenchmarkGoStringLongUnicode 139913 55553 -60.29%
BenchmarkGoStringLongUnicodeDirect 150863 57791 -61.69%
BenchmarkGoSliceShort 59279 20215 -65.90%
BenchmarkGoSliceShortDirect 60160 21136 -64.87%
BenchmarkGoSliceLong 411225 301870 -26.59%
BenchmarkGoSliceLongDirect 399029 298915 -25.09%
Fixesgolang/go#12619Fixesgolang/go#12113Fixesgolang/go#13033
Change-Id: I2b45e9e98a1248e3c23a5137f775f7364908bec7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/19821
Reviewed-by: Hyang-Ah Hana Kim <hyangah@gmail.com>
not harmful, but this consistency may simplify cgo handling
in some custom build systems
Change-Id: Id4692986725b3737c23cdeb9ce1a1fa2bc9f7dad
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/18615
Reviewed-by: David Crawshaw <crawshaw@golang.org>
Historically, the app package implemented Go runtime initialization.
This was convoluted, so the package was used both by all-Go apps
(currently based on Android's NativeActivity) and bind-based apps.
With Go 1.5 we have -buildmode=c-shared, which does a lot of the work
of the old app package. That code was removed a while back, but both
all-Go and gobind-based apps still used package app. The intermingled
initialization processes led to some strange states.
This CL separates gobind-based apps completely from the app package.
As part of that users are now expected to use System.loadLibrary
themselves. (A future CL may want to make the loadLibrary call part
of the .aar generated by gomobile bind.)
Delete the libhello example, which has been replaced by gomobile bind,
which could do with its own example at some point. Also delete the
libhellojni example, which now has nothing to do with the x/mobile
repository.
Change-Id: I444397f246dbafe81e5c53532eb482c197d26f70
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/11654
Reviewed-by: Hyang-Ah Hana Kim <hyangah@gmail.com>
This ensures that the java bindings are ready before any calls are
made by user code. As a bonus, the JNIEnv* is from the Seq class so I
believe no tricks are required to find the right class loader.
Fixesgolang/go#10903.
Change-Id: I33b3b39cef6cc2da36e271de882ba8d26610ea34
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10296
Reviewed-by: Elias Naur <elias.naur@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hyang-Ah Hana Kim <hyangah@gmail.com>
Tested on darwin/amd64 with
go build golang.org/x/mobile/...
Change-Id: Iec31ccb318913cea5acc7dcec1c6a858bf8654de
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/5770
Reviewed-by: Hyang-Ah Hana Kim <hyangah@gmail.com>
