This patch adds snapshot support to single executable applications.
To build a snapshot from the main script when preparing the
blob that will be injected into the single executable application,
add `"useSnapshot": true` to the configuration passed to
`--experimental-sea-config`. For example:
```
{
"main": "snapshot.js",
"output": "sea-prep.blob",
"useSnapshot": true
}
```
The main script used to build the snapshot must invoke
`v8.startupSnapshot.setDeserializeMainFunction()` to configure the
entry point. The generated startup snapshot would be part of the
preparation blob and get injected into the final executable.
When the single executable application is launched, instead of running
the `main` script from scratch, Node.js would instead deserialize the
snapshot to get to the state initialized during build-time directly.
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/46824
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/single-executable/discussions/57
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Darshan Sen <raisinten@gmail.com>