We'd like to start using ##mixed## instead of ##var## for attribute types to be consistent with Hack. As a followup to this (once released), we would codemod all ##var## to ##mixed##.
This is an incremental step towards moving it all the way
to hphp/server. This flattens base but doesn't untangle
the server files from lib_hphp_runtime
For PhpFiles, there was a mixed management system, where references from
translated code were held until the code was made unreachable, while
references from interpreted code were held for the duration of the
current request. Under the new scheme, PhpFiles are always treadmilled.
They are owned by the FileRepository, and so need to be ref-counted
because the FileRepository can have the same PhpFile under multiple
paths. But we don't ref-count the *uses* of PhpFiles anymore.
Classes still need to be ref-counted, but as soon as their Unit
goes away, most of their internals can be freed. We just need to
hold onto them if derived classes are referencing them. Even in
that case, the next time we try to instantiate the derived class,
we can kill any that reference this Class.
There were also lots of holes where references were not dropped,
or owned data structures were not destroyed. eg a Class's methods
were not destroyed when the Class was destroyed; there were
several paths where an entry was erased from the file map, but the
corresponding PhpFile was not decRef'd - or worse, a null entry
was left in the map (something we had asserts to check for).
This tries to make the handling more consistent.
runtime/eval is a relic of a bygone era. As long as we're cleaning up
our directory structure, let's move FileRepository (the only remaining
thing in runtime/eval/runtime) to where it makes sense.
runtime/eval still contains the debugger, which would probably make more
sense as runtime/debugger, but I don't want to throw a wrench in the
works for @mikemag and @hermanv unnecessarily.
Kyle Delong