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Cuts the fixed per-call cost of the JS ⇄ Java bridge. Prompted by reading Expo's new Kolibri JNI layer. Most of Kolibri doesn't carry over, because it gets its speed from compile-time-typed bindings and we run a generic FFI. Its core ideas do carry over: a thread-cached JNIEnv, ids and keys resolved once, primitives moved in bulk instead of boxed one by one, and short strings copied through stack buffers. Each commit is one change and is benchmarked on its own (table below).
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What it removes
test: JNI micro-benchmarks
Adds tests/benchmarks/jniBenchmarks.js + com.tns.tests.JniBench. They run instead of Jasmine when debug.ns.jnibench=1 is set (with optional .filter / .scale props), and log JNIBENCH {json} lines.
cache MetadataNode's interface flag
MethodCallback called IsNodeTypeInterface() on every Java call. That goes through GetNodeType, which takes the metadata reader's reentrant state lock (two std::mutex round trips plus a thread-id compare). In the profile this was ~10% of add(int,int).
cache the thread's JNIEnv
JEnv is constructed 6–12× per call, and each construction called JavaVM::GetEnv. JEnv(JNIEnv*) threw its argument away. The env is now held in a thread_local. See the multithreading notes below.
lock-free memoized node types
MetadataTreeNode::type becomes a write-once std::atomic<uint8_t>, so a type that is already derived is read without the lock.
private keys once per isolate
Every object argument built a V8 string from a std::string ("t::cast", "nullNode") and resolved it through the Private::ForApi registry.
Java → JS args as parallel primitive arrays
packageArgs boxed each argument into an Object[3n]. Native then made ~5–6 JNI calls per argument: 3× GetObjectArrayElement, Integer.intValue() for the type id, and an unboxing call for the value. Arguments now travel as int[] types and long[] raw bits, read with one region copy each. A lazily allocated Object[] carries only strings and class names. The intermediate v8::Array → std::vector copy is gone too.
char returns / String check
A char return took 4 JNI calls and mangled non-ASCII (it kept only the first modified-UTF-8 byte). IsInstanceOf(result, String) is now skipped when the declared return type can't be a String (String is final).
trim per-callback work
Skip result conversion for void callbacks. Stop constructing a std::stringstream per converted value. Build an internalized method-name key straight from the jstring.
JS string args via stack buffer
v8::String::Value heap copy → WriteV2 into a 256-unit stack buffer.
one GetPrivate
HasPrivate + GetPrivate → a single GetPrivate. (Measured within noise.)
own runtime without the global lock
Every Java → JS call resolved its runtime id via GetRuntime(int), which takes the process-wide s_runtimeCacheMutex, so workers and multithreaded JS serialized on it. The calling thread's own runtime is now matched against a thread_local id first; foreign threads keep the locked map.
Numbers
Rebased onto #2015; the headline table is re-measured on top of it. Measured on a release APK (-O3, not debuggable, so no CheckJNI) on the arm64 sdk_gphone64 emulator (API 36) on an Apple Silicon host. The test app runs with enableMultithreadedJavascript: true. Method:
The app is AOT-compiled with cmd package compile -m speed after install.
One warm-up launch is discarded, then 5 launches.
Each benchmark warms up, then runs 7 timed rounds.
Values are the median ns/op across runs. Java → JS callbacks are timed in Java with System.nanoTime.
Run-to-run noise on the emulator is about ±5–8%, so read small deltas with care. Constructor rows are dominated by ART and V8 GC.
benchmark
main (ns)
this PR (ns)
Δ
static.noop()
63
39
-38%
static.add(int,int)
97
72
-26%
static.addDouble(double,double)
110
77
-30%
static.addLong(long,long)
96
73
-24%
instance.noop()
97
76
-22%
instance.getInt()
93
75
-20%
instance.getBool()
98
71
-27%
instance.getChar()
170
81
-53%
instance.echo(String)
308
202
-34%
instance.echo(String 1KB)
1720
1730
+1%
instance.getString()
160
128
-20%
instance.self() [wrapped return]
158
128
-19%
instance.getOther() [wrapped return]
163
124
-24%
instance.takeObject(Object)
334
178
-47%
instance.takeObjects(Object x3)
752
355
-53%
static.bufferCapacity(ArrayBuffer)
323
142
-56%
static.sumInts(int[8] from JS array)
283
250
-12%
static.newObjectInJava() [new wrapper]
1435
1374
-4%
new java.lang.Object()
1172
1247
+6%
new Object.extend({})()
1300
1345
+3%
field.get int
60
55
-9%
field.set int
60
53
-12%
field.get Object
108
99
-9%
field.get String
121
108
-11%
callback.noArgs()
472
220
-53%
callback.twoInts(int,int)
859
302
-65%
callback.oneString(String)
744
382
-49%
callback.intReturn(int) -> int
782
437
-44%
callback.oneObject(Object)
715
284
-60%
Per-commit progression (measured before the rebase onto #2015)
benchmark
main
+interface flag
+JNIEnv cache
+node type
+private keys
+callback args
+char/String
+callback trims
+string args
+GetPrivate
+runtime lookup
Δ
static.noop()
58
46
42
46
37
37
35
38
37
43
37
-37%
static.add(int,int)
92
72
71
69
74
71
66
73
72
76
73
-21%
static.addDouble(double,double)
110
95
87
88
84
77
77
80
86
85
85
-23%
static.addLong(long,long)
95
80
71
70
72
71
68
74
75
78
73
-23%
instance.noop()
95
78
73
69
77
74
75
77
79
78
76
-20%
instance.getInt()
98
81
72
74
72
75
75
78
79
81
75
-24%
instance.getBool()
98
78
72
69
77
72
72
72
72
75
71
-28%
instance.getChar()
194
156
134
129
146
135
77
75
84
84
84
-56%
instance.echo(String)
332
296
250
250
272
230
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238
205
194
195
-41%
instance.echo(String 1KB)
1992
1802
1779
1715
2151
1676
1715
1652
1640
1602
1604
-19%
instance.getString()
181
151
126
126
140
128
126
129
129
127
125
-31%
instance.self() [wrapped return]
170
149
125
126
139
124
130
128
128
126
125
-26%
instance.getOther() [wrapped return]
170
150
130
126
142
130
126
128
131
127
126
-26%
instance.takeObject(Object)
357
316
276
277
177
179
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175
-51%
instance.takeObjects(Object x3)
754
736
666
672
369
357
354
348
348
360
357
-53%
static.bufferCapacity(ArrayBuffer)
336
302
271
263
136
138
133
140
143
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143
-57%
static.sumInts(int[8] from JS array)
311
281
262
255
261
259
263
256
267
260
259
-17%
static.newObjectInJava() [new wrapper]
1706
1547
1586
1510
1671
1414
1491
1383
1415
1202
1417
-17%
new java.lang.Object()
1309
1389
1448
1217
1507
1272
1396
1272
1265
1140
1163
-11%
new Object.extend({})()
1500
1390
1304
1246
1521
1312
1370
1365
1304
1266
1301
-13%
field.get int
59
60
53
55
61
53
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54
54
-8%
field.set int
59
60
52
52
54
50
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52
51
54
52
-12%
field.get Object
113
112
94
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94
101
95
96
-16%
field.get String
126
136
109
110
124
115
106
112
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109
112
-11%
callback.noArgs()
482
498
458
455
494
402
429
213
226
227
208
-57%
callback.twoInts(int,int)
887
887
837
835
895
499
527
292
307
311
283
-68%
callback.oneString(String)
798
812
728
729
751
592
600
380
385
365
366
-54%
callback.intReturn(int) -> int
846
841
768
794
810
581
568
422
427
419
418
-51%
callback.oneObject(Object)
803
776
733
697
718
499
508
300
306
283
289
-64%
Profiling: simpleperf record -e cpu-clock --call-graph dwarf against the release APK with the unstripped .so. The emulator has no hardware perf counters.
Multithreaded JS / workers
The JNIEnv cache is the one change that touches thread lifetimes:
The env is pinned in a thread_local only where the attach lifetime is known. That is a runtime's own thread, from context setup until DestroyRuntime; a worker also unpins just before DetachCurrentThread.
The hot Java_com_tns_Runtime_* entries (initNativeScript, runModule, runScript, callJSMethodNative, createJSInstanceNative) set it for the length of the call and restore the previous value. A pinned env is left alone.
A Java thread entering the main isolate under v8::Locker therefore uses its own entry's env, and nothing it set outlives its return.
The lazy-attach fallback in GetEnvSlow is never cached, because nothing would tell us when that env goes stale.
Every other new cache is either per isolate (only used while that isolate is locked) or a write-once atomic.
The JNIEnv pin and the GetRuntime(int) fast path both assume one runtime per thread, destroyed on that thread. That was already true (com.tns.Runtime's constructor throws on a second runtime per thread, and the only DestroyRuntime/delete sites are on the owner thread). It is now enforced natively with NS_CHECKs in the Runtime constructor, DestroyRuntime and ~Runtime, so a future embedding that breaks it aborts loudly instead of using a stale per-thread pointer.
Behaviour changes
A char return or field holding a non-ASCII character now comes back correctly.
An unmarshallable JS return value from a callback that overrides a void Java method is now ignored. It used to be converted (and could error) only to be thrown away.
Follow-ups (not in this PR)
Constructors (~1.3 µs) are mostly Java-side bookkeeping: two synchronized map puts plus storeClass per new, and a getUsedMemory round trip per construction. Throttling that round trip delays V8's view of large Java allocations, so it deserves its own discussion.
Object returns still make a getOrCreateJavaObjectID Java round trip every call (self() ~125 ns). Candidates are a small (jweak, id) probe cache, or a combined id + class-name call for the wrapper-miss path.
Primitive callback returns could come back as raw jlong bits instead of going through JsArgToArrayConverter and boxing.
Typed callJSMethod overloads from the binding generator would remove the varargs boxing entirely, which is the Kolibri-style end state.
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The full Jasmine suite passes on the emulator (./gradlew runtestsAndVerifyResults, 1468 specs, 0 failures). That includes the worker, multithreaded-JS, concurrent-access, GC, JNI-reference-leak and conversion suites.
A clean release build currently needs rm -rf app/build app/src/main/assets/metadata first, because of an existing buildMetadata up-to-date bug: its javac input is only registered if that directory exists at configuration time.
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Added optional JNI benchmarks to measure JavaScript-to-Java calls and Java-to-JavaScript callbacks, with configurable filtering and iteration scaling.
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Improved handling of calls between Java and JavaScript, including argument and string conversion.
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Improved runtime thread management and metadata access during JavaScript and Java interactions.
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The change adds an optional JNI benchmark suite and updates Java-to-JavaScript calls to pass arguments in parallel arrays. Native conversion, runtime thread handling, and metadata access also change.
Java packages arguments into type, value, and reference arrays. The JNI entry point and native runtime pass those arrays as JavaCallArgs.
Native argument conversion and callbacks test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/ArgConverter.*, test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/CallbackHandlers.*, test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/FieldAccessor.cpp, test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/Runtime.cpp
Native code converts packed arguments into V8 values using a caller-provided buffer. Callback handling uses the new argument representation and updates Java string and char result conversions.
JNI environment and runtime ownership test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/JEnv.*, test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/Runtime.*, test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/com_tns_Runtime.cpp, test-app/runtime/src/main/cpp/WorkerWrapper.cpp
JNI entry scopes track thread environments. Runtime initialization pins the environment; teardown clears runtime state and unpins it. Runtime ownership is associated with its creating thread.
Metadata node types use atomic storage, and interface status is cached. Null-node and cast-marker lookups use V8 private keys. Argument conversion and error construction also change.
JNI benchmark runner and fixtures test-app/app/src/main/assets/app/boot.js, test-app/app/src/main/assets/app/tests/benchmarks/jniBenchmarks.js, test-app/app/src/main/java/com/tns/tests/JniBench.java
When enabled, app startup runs JNI benchmarks instead of Jasmine and mainpage. JavaScript runs filtered, scaled measurements and logs results from Java benchmark fixtures.
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participant JavaRuntime as Runtime.java
participant NativeEntry as JNI entry point
participant NativeRuntime as Runtime::CallJSMethodNative
participant CallbackHandlers
JavaRuntime->>NativeEntry: pass argument type, value, and reference arrays
NativeEntry->>NativeRuntime: create JavaCallArgs
NativeRuntime->>CallbackHandlers: convert arguments and invoke JavaScript method
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NativeScript/android#2015: Both changes update Java-to-JavaScript call routing and depend on runtime ownership and dispatch assumptions.
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The change cuts JNI bridge overhead. The only identified issue affects the opt-in benchmark mode, where a missing gc function would stop the run before it reports results. Production paths and the Jasmine suite are not affected, so the change is mergeable with a small follow-up.
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Guard the gc() call.
gc() exists only if --expose_gc reaches V8. The runtime caches gc only when it is a function. If the flag is missing, gc() throws a ReferenceError inside the setTimeout callback. The benchmark then stops without JNIBENCH_DONE, and no benchmark runs.
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--- "a/test-app/app/src/main/assets/app/tests/benchmarks/jniBenchmarks.js"+++ "b/test-app/app/src/main/assets/app/tests/benchmarks/jniBenchmarks.js"@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
console.log("JNIBENCH_DONE " + JSON.stringify(results));
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Run instead of the Jasmine suite when the debug.ns.jnibench system property
is 1. Each benchmark logs a JNIBENCH {json} line with median/min ns per op;
Java -> JS callbacks are timed in Java with System.nanoTime.
…r call
MethodCallback asked IsNodeTypeInterface() on every Java method call, and
GetNodeType takes the metadata reader's state lock (two std::mutex round
trips plus a thread id compare) even when the type is already memoized.
JEnv is constructed several times per bridge call (argument converters,
JniLocalRef destructors, the object manager's weak-ref callbacks), and each
construction paid JavaVM::GetEnv; JEnv(JNIEnv*) also discarded its argument
and called GetEnv anyway.
The env is now cached in a thread_local, filled only where the attach
lifetime is known: pinned for a runtime's thread between its context setup
and DestroyRuntime (unpinned again before a worker detaches), and scoped to
the hot Java_com_tns_Runtime_* entry points for any other thread. The lazy
attach fallback still calls GetEnv and does not populate the cache.
A tree node's type is written once (INVALID_TYPE until derived from the
immutable value data), so a reader that sees a valid value can return it
without taking the state lock. GetNodeType runs on JS wrapper creation,
property and method-info reads; only the first derivation still locks.
Dynamically created nodes now publish their final type in one store.
…late
Every object argument looked up NumericCasts' cast marker and the null-node
marker by building a V8 string from a std::string and resolving it through
Private::ForApi's registry. Both keys are now created with the isolate's
other constants. JsArgConverter also stops copying the method signature,
which it only needs while parsing.
Runtime.packageArgs boxed every argument into an Object[3n] (an Integer type
id, the boxed value and a class name), and the native side unpacked each
argument with three GetObjectArrayElement calls plus two JNI unboxing calls.
Arguments now cross as int[] type ids, long[] raw primitive bits / object
ids, and an Object[] that is only allocated and read for strings and for the
class name a missing JS wrapper needs. Native reads both primitive arrays
with one region copy each and builds the JS arguments straight into a stack
buffer instead of a v8::Array that was then copied into a vector.
…mpossible
A char return or field read made a one-char jstring, fetched it as modified
UTF-8 and converted the first byte back, which also mangled any non-ASCII
char; it now becomes a one-unit V8 string directly.
Object returns asked IsInstanceOf(result, String) on every call. String is
final, so the check only runs when the declared return type is one of its
supertypes.
- Skip converting the JS result when the Java method returns void (the
generated caller passes void.class and discards it).
- JsArgToArrayConverter builds its error message only on failure instead of
constructing a std::stringstream for every converted value.
- The method name becomes an internalized V8 string straight from the
jstring, instead of jstring -> std::string -> a fresh V8 key that the
property lookup then internalizes.
ConvertToJavaString copied every JS string into a heap-allocated
v8::String::Value before NewString. Strings up to 256 UTF-16 units are now
written into a stack buffer; longer ones use one vector.
Every Java -> JS call (and lock/unlock) resolved its runtime id through
GetRuntime(int), which takes the process-wide s_runtimeCacheMutex, so workers
and multithreaded JS serialized on one lock. A thread's own runtime is now
matched against a thread_local id first; other threads keep the locked map.
That relies on two invariants that are now checked: a thread hosts at most
one runtime (as com.tns.Runtime's constructor already enforces in Java), and
a runtime is only destroyed on the thread that created it.
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Cuts the fixed per-call cost of the JS ⇄ Java bridge. Prompted by reading Expo's new Kolibri JNI layer. Most of Kolibri doesn't carry over, because it gets its speed from compile-time-typed bindings and we run a generic FFI. Its core ideas do carry over: a thread-cached
JNIEnv, ids and keys resolved once, primitives moved in bulk instead of boxed one by one, and short strings copied through stack buffers. Each commit is one change and is benchmarked on its own (table below).tests/benchmarks/jniBenchmarks.js+com.tns.tests.JniBench. They run instead of Jasmine whendebug.ns.jnibench=1is set (with optional.filter/.scaleprops), and logJNIBENCH {json}lines.MethodCallbackcalledIsNodeTypeInterface()on every Java call. That goes throughGetNodeType, which takes the metadata reader's reentrant state lock (twostd::mutexround trips plus a thread-id compare). In the profile this was ~10% ofadd(int,int).JEnvis constructed 6–12× per call, and each construction calledJavaVM::GetEnv.JEnv(JNIEnv*)threw its argument away. The env is now held in athread_local. See the multithreading notes below.MetadataTreeNode::typebecomes a write-oncestd::atomic<uint8_t>, so a type that is already derived is read without the lock.std::string("t::cast","nullNode") and resolved it through thePrivate::ForApiregistry.packageArgsboxed each argument into anObject[3n]. Native then made ~5–6 JNI calls per argument: 3×GetObjectArrayElement,Integer.intValue()for the type id, and an unboxing call for the value. Arguments now travel asint[]types andlong[]raw bits, read with one region copy each. A lazily allocatedObject[]carries only strings and class names. The intermediatev8::Array→std::vectorcopy is gone too.IsInstanceOf(result, String)is now skipped when the declared return type can't be aString(String is final).voidcallbacks. Stop constructing astd::stringstreamper converted value. Build an internalized method-name key straight from thejstring.v8::String::Valueheap copy →WriteV2into a 256-unit stack buffer.HasPrivate+GetPrivate→ a singleGetPrivate. (Measured within noise.)GetRuntime(int), which takes the process-wides_runtimeCacheMutex, so workers and multithreaded JS serialized on it. The calling thread's own runtime is now matched against athread_localid first; foreign threads keep the locked map.Numbers
Rebased onto #2015; the headline table is re-measured on top of it. Measured on a release APK (
-O3, not debuggable, so no CheckJNI) on the arm64sdk_gphone64emulator (API 36) on an Apple Silicon host. The test app runs withenableMultithreadedJavascript: true. Method:cmd package compile -m speedafter install.System.nanoTime.Run-to-run noise on the emulator is about ±5–8%, so read small deltas with care. Constructor rows are dominated by ART and V8 GC.
Per-commit progression (measured before the rebase onto #2015)
Profiling:
simpleperf record -e cpu-clock --call-graph dwarfagainst the release APK with the unstripped.so. The emulator has no hardware perf counters.Multithreaded JS / workers
The
JNIEnvcache is the one change that touches thread lifetimes:thread_localonly where the attach lifetime is known. That is a runtime's own thread, from context setup untilDestroyRuntime; a worker also unpins just beforeDetachCurrentThread.Java_com_tns_Runtime_*entries (initNativeScript,runModule,runScript,callJSMethodNative,createJSInstanceNative) set it for the length of the call and restore the previous value. A pinned env is left alone.v8::Lockertherefore uses its own entry's env, and nothing it set outlives its return.GetEnvSlowis never cached, because nothing would tell us when that env goes stale.Every other new cache is either per isolate (only used while that isolate is locked) or a write-once atomic.
The
JNIEnvpin and theGetRuntime(int)fast path both assume one runtime per thread, destroyed on that thread. That was already true (com.tns.Runtime's constructor throws on a second runtime per thread, and the onlyDestroyRuntime/deletesites are on the owner thread). It is now enforced natively withNS_CHECKs in theRuntimeconstructor,DestroyRuntimeand~Runtime, so a future embedding that breaks it aborts loudly instead of using a stale per-thread pointer.Behaviour changes
charreturn or field holding a non-ASCII character now comes back correctly.voidJava method is now ignored. It used to be converted (and could error) only to be thrown away.Follow-ups (not in this PR)
storeClasspernew, and agetUsedMemoryround trip per construction. Throttling that round trip delays V8's view of large Java allocations, so it deserves its own discussion.getOrCreateJavaObjectIDJava round trip every call (self()~125 ns). Candidates are a small(jweak, id)probe cache, or a combined id + class-name call for the wrapper-miss path.jlongbits instead of going throughJsArgToArrayConverterand boxing.callJSMethodoverloads from the binding generator would remove the varargs boxing entirely, which is the Kolibri-style end state.Does your pull request have unit tests?
The full Jasmine suite passes on the emulator (
./gradlew runtestsAndVerifyResults, 1468 specs, 0 failures). That includes the worker, multithreaded-JS, concurrent-access, GC, JNI-reference-leak and conversion suites.To reproduce the numbers:
A clean release build currently needs
rm -rf app/build app/src/main/assets/metadatafirst, because of an existingbuildMetadataup-to-date bug: its javac input is only registered if that directory exists at configuration time.Summary by CodeRabbit