This restores the ability to leave out the initial context parameter
when defining functions with reflection. This is important because some
projects are porting from a different library to wazero, and all the
alternatives are not contextualized.
For example, this project is porting envoy host functions, and the
original definitions (in mosn) don't have a context parameter. By being
lenient, they can migrate easier.
See 6b813482b6/pkg/proxywasm/wazero/imports_v1.go
Signed-off-by: Adrian Cole <adrian@tetrate.io>
This PR follows @hafeidejiangyou advice to not only enable end users to
avoid reflection when calling host functions, but also use that approach
ourselves internally. The performance results are staggering and will be
noticable in high performance applications.
Before
```
BenchmarkHostCall/Call
BenchmarkHostCall/Call-16 1000000 1050 ns/op
Benchmark_EnvironGet/environGet
Benchmark_EnvironGet/environGet-16 525492 2224 ns/op
```
Now
```
BenchmarkHostCall/Call
BenchmarkHostCall/Call-16 14807203 83.22 ns/op
Benchmark_EnvironGet/environGet
Benchmark_EnvironGet/environGet-16 951690 1054 ns/op
```
To accomplish this, this PR consolidates code around host function
definition and enables a fast path for functions where the user takes
responsibility for defining its WebAssembly mappings. Existing users
will need to change their code a bit, as signatures have changed.
For example, we are now more strict that all host functions require a
context parameter zero. Also, we've replaced
`HostModuleBuilder.ExportFunction` and `ExportFunctions` with a new type
`HostFunctionBuilder` that consolidates the responsibility and the
documentation.
```diff
ctx := context.Background()
-hello := func() {
+hello := func(context.Context) {
fmt.Fprintln(stdout, "hello!")
}
-_, err := r.NewHostModuleBuilder("env").ExportFunction("hello", hello).Instantiate(ctx, r)
+_, err := r.NewHostModuleBuilder("env").
+ NewFunctionBuilder().WithFunc(hello).Export("hello").
+ Instantiate(ctx, r)
```
Power users can now use `HostFunctionBuilder` to define functions that
won't use reflection. There are two choices of interfaces to use
depending on if that function needs access to the calling module or not:
`api.GoFunction` and `api.GoModuleFunction`. Here's an example defining
one.
```go
builder.WithGoFunction(api.GoFunc(func(ctx context.Context, params []uint64) []uint64 {
x, y := uint32(params[0]), uint32(params[1])
sum := x + y
return []uint64{sum}
}, []api.ValueType{api.ValueTypeI32, api.ValueTypeI32}, []api.ValueType{api.ValueTypeI32})
```
As you'll notice and as documented, this approach is more verbose and
not for everyone. If you aren't making a low-level library, you are
likely able to afford the 1us penalty for the convenience of reflection.
However, we are happy to enable this option for foundational libraries
and those with high performance requirements (like ourselves)!
Fixes#825
Signed-off-by: Adrian Cole <adrian@tetrate.io>
We at one point considered making `ModuleBuilder` create complete
WebAssembly binaries. However, we recently spun out
[wabin](https://github.com/tetratelabs/wabin), which allows this.
Meanwhile, the features in `ModuleBuilder` were confusing and misused.
For example, the only two cases memory was exported on GitHub were done
by accident. This is because host functions act on the guest's memory,
not their own.
Hence, this removes memory and globals from host side definitions, and
renames the type to HostModuleBuilder to clarify this is not ever going
to be used to construct normal Wasm binaries.
Most importantly, this simplifies the API and reduces a lot of code. It
is important to make changes like this, particularly deleting any
experimental things that didn't end up useful.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Cole <adrian@tetrate.io>
Co-authored-by: Anuraag Agrawal <anuraaga@gmail.com>
Our root directory is getting crowded and it is also difficult to
organize the "host imports" concept due to this.
This moves common and language-specific imports into their own
directory. This will break go import signatures on the next release, but
is more sustainable overall.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Cole <adrian@tetrate.io>
