[Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-project] quick methods and the method call stack

[Eliot Miranda]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Alexandre Bergel
<alexandre.bergel at me.com>wrote:

> Hi!
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> Can someone confirm or infirm the following: A quick method (ie. the
> compiled methods answer true to the message isQuick) is executed without
> creating a stack frame. Is that true?
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Yes, at least in the interpreter.  In Cog, if jitted, such methods run in a
leaf frame (only the return address is pushed), and additional tests in the
JIT allow many other methods to run with only a leaf frame.  See
needsFrameNever: and needsFrameIfInBlock: and senders in the Cog VM source.
 If all the bytecodes in a method are marked with needsFrameNever: or
needsFrameIfInBlock: then the method can be (and is) compiled frameless.
 if all the bytecodes in a block are marked with needsFrameNever: then the
block can be (and is) compiled frameless.


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> Cheers,
> Alexandre
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Eliot
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