This approximation tries to generate values within 0.1% of their actual
expected value. Microbenchmarks indicate that this iterative SIMD
version can be up to 60x faster than `AK::SIMD::exp`.
This makes use of the new [UseNewAKString] extended attribute. Using
Vector storage will make it easier to make this interface into an IDL
iterable. It seems the reason it didn't use Vector originally was due
to awkward DeprecatedString -> String conversions.
Adding the [UseNewAKString] extended attribute to an interface will
cause all IDL string types to use String instead of DeprecatedString.
This is done on an per interface level instead of per type/parameter
because:
- It's much simpler to implement, as the generators can already access
the interface's extended attributes. Doing it per type/parameter
would mean parsing and piping extended attributes for each type that
doesn't already take extended attributes, such as unions.
- Allows more incremental adoption of AK::String. For example, adding
[UseNewAKString] to BodyInit would require refactoring Request,
Response and XMLHttpRequest to AK::String in one swoop. Doing it on
the interface allows you to convert just XHR and its dependencies at
once, for example.
- Simple string return types (i.e. not parameterised or not in a union)
already accept any of the string types JS::PrimitiveString::create
accepts. For example, you can add [UseNewAKString] to DOMStringMap to
convert Element attributes to AK::String and still return AK::String
from get_attribute, without adding [UseNewAKString] to Element.
- Adding [UseNewAKString] to one function typically means adding it to
a bunch of other functions, if not the rest of them. For example,
adding [UseNewAKString] to the parameters FormData.append would
either mean converting AK::String to AK::DeprecatedString or storing
the AK::String as-is, making the other functions of FormData have to
convert back from AK::String or also support AK::String.
Because of interdependencies between DOM::Event and UIEvents::MouseEvent
to template function fire_an_event() in WebDriverConnection.cpp, the
commit: 'LibWeb: Make factory methods of UIEvents::MouseEvent fallible'
have been squashed into this commit.
