Fix slow performance of PropTypes.oneOfType() on misses (facebook#7510)

It used to be slow whenever a type miss occurred because expensive `Error` objects were being created. For example, with `oneOfType([number, data])`, passing a date would create an `Error` object in `number` typechecker for every item.

The savings depend on how much commonly you used `oneOfType()`, and how often it had “misses”. If you used it heavily, you might see 1.5x to 2x performance improvements in `__DEV__` after this fix.

src/isomorphic/classic/types/ReactPropTypes.js

@@ -105,6 +105,20 @@ function is(x, y) {
 }
 /*eslint-enable no-self-compare*/
 
+/**
+ * We use an Error-like object for backward compatibility as people may call
+ * PropTypes directly and inspect their output. However we don't use real
+ * Errors anymore. We don't inspect their stack anyway, and creating them
+ * is prohibitively expensive if they are created too often, such as what
+ * happens in oneOfType() for any type before the one that matched.
+ */
+function PropTypeError(message) {
+  this.message = message;
+  this.stack = '';
+}
+// Make `instanceof Error` still work for returned errors.
+PropTypeError.prototype = Error.prototype;
+
 function createChainableTypeChecker(validate) {
   if (__DEV__) {
     var manualPropTypeCallCache = {};
@@ -145,12 +159,12 @@ function createChainableTypeChecker(validate) {
       var locationName = ReactPropTypeLocationNames[location];
       if (isRequired) {
         if (props[propName] === null) {
-          return new Error(
+          return new PropTypeError(
             `The ${locationName} \`${propFullName}\` is marked as required ` +
             `in \`${componentName}\`, but its value is \`null\`.`
           );
         }
-        return new Error(
+        return new PropTypeError(
           `The ${locationName} \`${propFullName}\` is marked as required in ` +
           `\`${componentName}\`, but its value is \`undefined\`.`
         );
@@ -191,7 +205,7 @@ function createPrimitiveTypeChecker(expectedType) {
       // 'of type `object`'.
       var preciseType = getPreciseType(propValue);
 
-      return new Error(
+      return new PropTypeError(
         `Invalid ${locationName} \`${propFullName}\` of type ` +
         `\`${preciseType}\` supplied to \`${componentName}\`, expected ` +
         `\`${expectedType}\`.`
@@ -209,15 +223,15 @@ function createAnyTypeChecker() {
 function createArrayOfTypeChecker(typeChecker) {
   function validate(props, propName, componentName, location, propFullName) {
     if (typeof typeChecker !== 'function') {
-      return new Error(
+      return new PropTypeError(
         `Property \`${propFullName}\` of component \`${componentName}\` has invalid PropType notation inside arrayOf.`
       );
     }
     var propValue = props[propName];
     if (!Array.isArray(propValue)) {
       var locationName = ReactPropTypeLocationNames[location];
       var propType = getPropType(propValue);
-      return new Error(
+      return new PropTypeError(
         `Invalid ${locationName} \`${propFullName}\` of type ` +
         `\`${propType}\` supplied to \`${componentName}\`, expected an array.`
       );
@@ -246,7 +260,7 @@ function createElementTypeChecker() {
     if (!ReactElement.isValidElement(propValue)) {
       var locationName = ReactPropTypeLocationNames[location];
       var propType = getPropType(propValue);
-      return new Error(
+      return new PropTypeError(
         `Invalid ${locationName} \`${propFullName}\` of type ` +
         `\`${propType}\` supplied to \`${componentName}\`, expected a single ReactElement.`
       );
@@ -262,7 +276,7 @@ function createInstanceTypeChecker(expectedClass) {
       var locationName = ReactPropTypeLocationNames[location];
       var expectedClassName = expectedClass.name || ANONYMOUS;
       var actualClassName = getClassName(props[propName]);
-      return new Error(
+      return new PropTypeError(
         `Invalid ${locationName} \`${propFullName}\` of type ` +
         `\`${actualClassName}\` supplied to \`${componentName}\`, expected ` +
         `instance of \`${expectedClassName}\`.`
@@ -289,7 +303,7 @@ function createEnumTypeChecker(expectedValues) {
 
     var locationName = ReactPropTypeLocationNames[location];
     var valuesString = JSON.stringify(expectedValues);
-    return new Error(
+    return new PropTypeError(
       `Invalid ${locationName} \`${propFullName}\` of value \`${propValue}\` ` +
       `supplied to \`${componentName}\`, expected one of ${valuesString}.`
     );
@@ -300,15 +314,15 @@ function createEnumTypeChecker(expectedValues) {
 function createObjectOfTypeChecker(typeChecker) {
   function validate(props, propName, componentName, location, propFullName) {
     if (typeof typeChecker !== 'function') {
-      return new Error(
+      return new PropTypeError(
         `Property \`${propFullName}\` of component \`${componentName}\` has invalid PropType notation inside objectOf.`
       );
     }
     var propValue = props[propName];
     var propType = getPropType(propValue);
     if (propType !== 'object') {
       var locationName = ReactPropTypeLocationNames[location];
-      return new Error(
+      return new PropTypeError(
         `Invalid ${locationName} \`${propFullName}\` of type ` +
         `\`${propType}\` supplied to \`${componentName}\`, expected an object.`
       );
@@ -357,7 +371,7 @@ function createUnionTypeChecker(arrayOfTypeCheckers) {
     }
 
     var locationName = ReactPropTypeLocationNames[location];
-    return new Error(
+    return new PropTypeError(
       `Invalid ${locationName} \`${propFullName}\` supplied to ` +
       `\`${componentName}\`.`
     );
@@ -369,7 +383,7 @@ function createNodeChecker() {
   function validate(props, propName, componentName, location, propFullName) {
     if (!isNode(props[propName])) {
       var locationName = ReactPropTypeLocationNames[location];
-      return new Error(
+      return new PropTypeError(
         `Invalid ${locationName} \`${propFullName}\` supplied to ` +
         `\`${componentName}\`, expected a ReactNode.`
       );
@@ -385,7 +399,7 @@ function createShapeTypeChecker(shapeTypes) {
     var propType = getPropType(propValue);
     if (propType !== 'object') {
       var locationName = ReactPropTypeLocationNames[location];
-      return new Error(
+      return new PropTypeError(
         `Invalid ${locationName} \`${propFullName}\` of type \`${propType}\` ` +
         `supplied to \`${componentName}\`, expected \`object\`.`
       );

src/isomorphic/classic/types/__tests__/ReactPropTypes-test.js

@@ -232,8 +232,6 @@ describe('ReactPropTypes', function() {
       expectWarningInDevelopment(PropTypes.object.isRequired, null);
       expectWarningInDevelopment(PropTypes.object.isRequired, undefined);
     });
-
-
   });
 
   describe('Any type', function() {
@@ -259,7 +257,6 @@ describe('ReactPropTypes', function() {
       expectWarningInDevelopment(PropTypes.any.isRequired, null);
       expectWarningInDevelopment(PropTypes.any.isRequired, undefined);
     });
-
   });
 
   describe('ArrayOf Type', function() {