[runtime] Migrate Object.create to C++.

There's no point in keeping the ObjectCreate JavaScript wrapper
function, which even does allocation site pretenuring for the
instances created via Object.create (where ObjectCreate itself is
the AllocationSite), and does not offer any sane way forward.

Instead introduce a new ObjectCreate C++ builtin, which currently
serves as a baseline implementation, on top of which we can think
about ways to optimize Object.create for the common case (i.e.
frameworks such as Ember.js make heavy use of Object.create).

R=cbruni@chromium.org
TBR=hpayer@chromium.org

Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/1558433002

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README.md

V8 JavaScript Engine

V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.

V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262.

V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google.

V8 can run standalone, or can be embedded into any C++ application.

V8 Project page: https://github.com/v8/v8/wiki

Getting the Code

Checkout depot tools, and run

    fetch v8

This will checkout V8 into the directory v8 and fetch all of its dependencies. To stay up to date, run

    git pull origin
    gclient sync

For fetching all branches, add the following into your remote configuration in .git/config:

    fetch = +refs/branch-heads/*:refs/remotes/branch-heads/*
    fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

Contributing

Please follow the instructions mentioned on the V8 wiki.