With the C++ kernel for Rust, we currently need to generate quite a few C++
thunks for operations on map fields. For each message we generate, we generate
these thunks for all possible map types that could have that message as a
value. These operations are for things such as insertion, removal, clearing,
iterating, etc.
The reason we do this is that templated types don't play well with FFI, so we
effectively need separate FFI endpoints for every possible combination of key
and value types used (or even potentially used) as a map field.
This CL fixes the problem by replacing the generated thunks with functions in
the runtime that can operate on `proto2::MessageLite*` without needing to care
about the specific message type.
The way it works is that we implement the operations using either
`UntypedMapBase` (the base class of all map types, which knows nothing about
the key and value types) or `KeyMapBase`, which knows the key type but not the
value type. I roughly followed the example of the table-driven parser, which
has a similar problem of needing to operate generically on maps without having
access to the concrete types.
I removed 54 thunks per message (that's 6 key types times 9 operations per
key), but had to add two new thunks per message:
- The `size_info` thunk looks up the `MapNodeSizeInfoT`, which is stored in a
small constant table. The important thing here is an offset indicating where
to look for the value in each map entry. This offset can be different for
every pair of key and value types, but we can safely assume that the result
does not depend on the signedness of the key. As a result we only need to
store four entries per message: one each for i32, i64, bool, and string.
- The `placement_new` thunk move-constructs a message in place. We need this
to be able to efficiently implement map insertion.
There are two big things that this CL does not address yet but which I plan to
follow up on:
- Enums still generate many map-related C++ thunks that could be replaced with
a common implementation. This should actually be much easier to handle than
messages, because every enum has the same representation as an i32.
- We still generate six `ProxiedInMapValue` implementations for every message,
but it should be possible to replace these with a blanket implementation that
works for all message types.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 657681421
Adam Cozzette