Deoptimized calls fail in Cog (was Re: [squeak-dev] The Trunk: Compiler-nice.189.mcz)

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Wed Mar 2 23:04:08 UTC 2011


On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Nicolas Cellier <
nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:

> One dumb way would be to retain a copy of
> originalSelector & originalArguments in MethodNode ivar at creation,
> then let #ensureCanCascade: restore the originals.
>

I like this.  Not at all dumb.


>
> Nicolas
>
> 2011/3/2 Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Eliot,
> >>
> >> Thanks for caring!
> >>
> >> The attached code fixed the case I reported first, but not this:
> >>
> >> true ifTrue: [ 'was true' print ]; ifFalse: [ 'not true' print ]
> >
> > Does the second one have to be unoptimized?  I guess that in this both
> are
> > deoptimized right?
> >
> > true ifTrue: [ 'was true' print ]; ifFalse: [ 'not true' print ];
> yourself
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Juan Vuletich
> >>
> >> Eliot Miranda wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Juan,
> >>>
> >>>     I think the deoptimize-after-the-fact approach has no hope of
> working
> >>> given the transformations for ifFalse:ifTrue: (swap arguments and
> transform
> >>> to ifTrue:ifFalse:), ifNil:ifNotNil: et al.  Better is to avoid
> transforming
> >>> at all if in a cascade.  So the attached is a start.  It needs cleaning
> up,
> >>> the older hack (ensureCanCascade:) removing and either all uses of
> >>> receiver:selector:arguments:precedence:from:sourceRange: should use
> >>> receiver:selector:arguments:precedence:from:sourceRange:canTransform:,
> or
> >>> implement receiver:selector:arguments:precedence:from:sourceRange in
> terms
> >>> of
> receiver:selector:arguments:precedence:from:sourceRange:canTransform.
> >>>  Anyway, test this and see how you get on.
> >>>
> >>> cheers,
> >>> Eliot
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Juan Vuletich <juan at jvuletich.org
> >>> <mailto:juan at jvuletich.org>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>    Hi Folks,
> >>>
> >>>    commits at source.squeak.org <mailto:commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>        Nicolas Cellier uploaded a new version of Compiler to project
> >>>        The Trunk:
> >>>        http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Compiler-nice.189.mcz
> >>>
> >>>        ==================== Summary ====================
> >>>
> >>>        Name: Compiler-nice.189
> >>>        Author: nice
> >>>        Time: 13 February 2011, 7:44:38.363 pm
> >>>        UUID: 3f6f02cd-1acf-48de-a388-b5ac55e27055
> >>>        Ancestors: Compiler-nice.188
> >>>
> >>>        Enable cascading of special messages by deoptimizing, thanks
> >>>        Eliot.
> >>>        This is mostly useless, but it removes an arbitrary limitation
> >>>        of the language.
> >>>
> >>>        =============== Diff against Compiler-nice.188 ===============
> >>>
> >>>    I integrated this nice code in Cuis, and tried:
> >>>
> >>>    true ifTrue: [ Transcript cr; show: 'was true' ]; yourself
> >>>
> >>>    I found that this works ok with the interpreter but does nothing
> >>>    in Cog. A bug, right?
> >>>
> >>>    Cheers,
> >>>    Juan Vuletich
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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