References — bi-05 The Binding Layer

Primary sources first. In-tree Chromium docs beat any external source, including these modules.

Primary

• Web IDL Standard — the interface definition language every web API is written in, and the type-conversion rules that produce the coercions you see from JavaScript.
• Blink IDL documentation — the extended attributes ([CallWith], [RaisesException], [Reflect]) that appear throughout Blink's .idl files.
• Blink bindings README

Source

• third_party/blink/renderer/bindings/ — generated and hand-written glue
• core/dom/element.idl — read an IDL file alongside its generated binding
• platform/bindings/script_wrappable.h — the base for anything exposed to JS
• V8 embedder API — handles, contexts, isolates, and why v8::Local exists

V8 itself

• V8 documentation · Design docs
• Hidden classes and inline caches — measured in fe-03 (sibling project): megamorphic access is 1.9×, and 2.9 ns.
• Embedder's guide — handle scopes and the ownership rules that make wrapper lifetime tricky

Related modules

• bi-04 — DOM internals — the C++ objects being wrapped
• bi-06 — Chromium C++ — the language features the bindings use heavily
• fe-03 — Object shapes & JIT (sibling project) — V8's optimisation model, measured and put in perspective

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