lib: improve method of function calling

Using a more "direct" method of function calling yields better
performance.

PR-URL: #10789
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Benjamin Gruenbaum <benjamingr@gmail.com>

lib/internal/module.js

@@ -8,23 +8,22 @@ exports = module.exports = {
 
 exports.requireDepth = 0;
 
-// Invoke with makeRequireFunction.call(module) where |module| is the
-// Module object to use as the context for the require() function.
-function makeRequireFunction() {
-  const Module = this.constructor;
-  const self = this;
+// Invoke with makeRequireFunction(module) where |module| is the Module object
+// to use as the context for the require() function.
+function makeRequireFunction(mod) {
+  const Module = mod.constructor;
 
   function require(path) {
     try {
       exports.requireDepth += 1;
-      return self.require(path);
+      return mod.require(path);
     } finally {
       exports.requireDepth -= 1;
     }
   }
 
   function resolve(request) {
-    return Module._resolveFilename(request, self);
+    return Module._resolveFilename(request, mod);
   }
 
   require.resolve = resolve;

lib/module.js

@@ -577,11 +577,11 @@ Module.prototype._compile = function(content, filename) {
     }
   }
   var dirname = path.dirname(filename);
-  var require = internalModule.makeRequireFunction.call(this);
-  var args = [this.exports, require, this, filename, dirname];
+  var require = internalModule.makeRequireFunction(this);
   var depth = internalModule.requireDepth;
   if (depth === 0) stat.cache = new Map();
-  var result = compiledWrapper.apply(this.exports, args);
+  var result = compiledWrapper.call(this.exports, this.exports, require, this,
+                                    filename, dirname);
   if (depth === 0) stat.cache = null;
   return result;
 };

lib/repl.js

@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ REPLServer.prototype.createContext = function() {
   const module = new Module('<repl>');
   module.paths = Module._resolveLookupPaths('<repl>', parentModule)[1];
 
-  const require = internalModule.makeRequireFunction.call(module);
+  const require = internalModule.makeRequireFunction(module);
   context.module = module;
   context.require = require;