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@max-lt max-lt commented Jan 10, 2026

Adds bindings for multi-threaded isolate pooling, enabling architectures like Cloudflare Workers.

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  • UnenteredIsolate: New isolate type without auto-enter, removes LIFO drop constraint
  • v8::Locker: Acquires exclusive thread access to an isolate
  • v8::Unlocker: Temporarily releases a lock
  • unsafe impl Send for UnenteredIsolate (safe with Locker)

Key Features

  • Drop isolates in any order (no LIFO panic)
  • Share isolates across threads with Arc<Mutex<UnenteredIsolate>>
  • <10µs warm start vs ~3-5ms creating new isolates
  • 10,000+ req/s throughput per cached isolate

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Note: Each thread must call unsafe { isolate.enter() } before use to setup V8's thread-local state.

No breaking changes - all new APIs

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devsnek commented Jan 10, 2026

To make this actually safe, v8::UnenteredIsolate can not deref into v8::Isolate. I would suggest that v8::Locker::new() accepts an &mut UnenteredIsolate and derefs into v8::Isolate instead. v8::Unlocker is also a huge can of worms wrt aliasing. I'd suggest leaving it out for now.

Also, v8::Locker internals don't belong in scope code, and you don't really need to make separate raw types for them. You should also avoid hard-coding sizes like [usize; 2]. In binding.hpp you can expose either v8::Locker, or the size of v8::Locker if exposing v8::Locker is too complex for bindgen.

Also, these ai generated comments and pr descriptions are really fucking annoying. You need to take responsibility for what you are submitting, rather than just assuming claude will be correct. unsafe impl Send for UnenteredIsolate (safe with Locker) is wrong! Regardless of what the comment says, the drop implementation of UnenteredIsolate is unsound!

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max-lt commented Jan 10, 2026

Will rework, thanks for the review

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max-lt commented Jan 12, 2026

Applied requested changes. Let me know if I missed anything.

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I would also like to help with MR. Do you need any help, or can I contribute to speed up the merge with the main code?

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max-lt commented Jan 29, 2026

Thanks @RainyPixel for offering help! I'd really appreciate it.

Honestly, what I need most right now is a thorough code review. I believe the current implementation addresses @devsnek's safety concerns, but having fresh eyes on it would really help move this forward.

In the meantime, we maintain a working fork at https://github.com/openworkers/rusty-v8 (currently at v145 with ptrcomp & sandbox feature flags) that we use in production for https://github.com/openworkers/openworkers-runner. It's also published on crates.io as https://crates.io/crates/openworkers-v8. The isolate pooling works well for our use case. Feel free to check it out if you want to see the implementation in action.

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