From a7eedc232944bb15477595707086ee1b5b043cef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Gerhard=20St=C3=B6bich?= <deb2001-github@yahoo.de>
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2022 18:26:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] node-api: create reference only when needed

Optimize napi_create_external() to create the reference for calling
finalizer only if user actually provides a finalizer callback.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/44827
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Daeyeon Jeong <daeyeon.dev@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
---
 src/js_native_api_v8.cc | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/js_native_api_v8.cc b/src/js_native_api_v8.cc
index dacf01117a5069..58567c5e44a9e7 100644
--- a/src/js_native_api_v8.cc
+++ b/src/js_native_api_v8.cc
@@ -2387,10 +2387,12 @@ napi_status NAPI_CDECL napi_create_external(napi_env env,
 
   v8::Local<v8::Value> external_value = v8::External::New(isolate, data);
 
-  // The Reference object will delete itself after invoking the finalizer
-  // callback.
-  v8impl::Reference::New(
-      env, external_value, 0, true, finalize_cb, data, finalize_hint);
+  if (finalize_cb) {
+    // The Reference object will delete itself after invoking the finalizer
+    // callback.
+    v8impl::Reference::New(
+        env, external_value, 0, true, finalize_cb, data, finalize_hint);
+  }
 
   *result = v8impl::JsValueFromV8LocalValue(external_value);