Relational string operators (`<`, `<=`, `>`, `>=`) compared the UTF-8
bytes, which is code-point order. Node compares UTF-16 code units, so the
results differed for characters above U+FFFF against U+E000..U+FFFF and
for lone surrogates against surrogate pairs. The default `sort()`
comparator, `util.inspect` with `sorted: true` and dynamic comparisons
already used UTF-16 order; the default comparator of a dynamic array's
`sort()` did not.
Typed comparisons and the dynamic array sort now use `scr_str_cmp_u16`,
and the IR's `strCmp` node no longer has a `utf16` flag. The two orders
agree unless both of the first differing bytes are at least 0xED, so:
- the inline wrapper decides differing first words, or last words of
equal lengths up to 16 bytes, in byte order when neither word has a
byte of at least 0xED (a SWAR test). Other differing words, and the
first bytes of shorter strings, decide by their first differing byte:
in byte order when one of the two is below 0xED, and by plane when both
are lead bytes from 0xEE to 0xF4 (a supplementary character orders
below U+E000..U+FFFF);
- otherwise a proven-ASCII string on either side compares with `memcmp`
(`scr_str_cmp`), and other pairs call `scr_str_cmp_u16_bytes`. It finds
the first differing byte with words up to byte 32, then with 32-byte
SSE2 or NEON blocks where the target has them. The call is marked as
only reading its arguments, so repeated comparisons of one pair merge.
- `scr_str_cmp_u16` itself takes the same `memcmp` path for proven-ASCII
strings.
The native compiler sorts record fields with `<` and checks the order
with `sort()`, so it reported SC9001 for 5888-inspect-sorted.ts, whose
object has the keys "\u{1F600}" and "\uffff". 5888 runs in the
native-frontend self-host check. Adds corpus 6023.
Each limitations partial held its whole text on one line (map-and-set.mdx
was a single 1,080-character line), so any two edits to the same partial
conflicted. The partials now put one sentence per line, with a bullet's
continuation lines indented two spaces. Markdown joins the lines, so the
rendered pages are unchanged.
scripts/limitations-partials.mjs reads a labeled bullet's indented
continuation lines as part of the bullet when it splits and joins the page,
and AGENTS.md states the convention.
docs/content/docs/limitations.mdx now holds the frontmatter, the
headings, the anchor spans and one <include> line per partial. The text
moves unchanged to docs/content/limitations/: one file per labeled
bullet (<section>/<label>.mdx) and one per section's other text
(<section>.mdx). Edits to different bullets no longer touch adjacent
lines of one file.
remarkDocsConventions splices the included partials into the page and
joins the lists that consecutive bullet partials contribute, so the page,
its Markdown twin and the search index render as before. The route tests
read the page with its partials inlined. A page that includes partials
takes its last-modified date, used by the sitemap, from the newest commit
to the page or any of its partials.
docs/scripts/limitations-partials.mjs joins the partials back into one
file, splits a single-file page, and merges a branch's edits to the
single-file page into the partials.
Chris Tate