Thanks Eliot! Francisco
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:37 AM, Germán Arduino garduino@gmail.com wrote:
Wow fantastic! I will try tomorrow on my usual development work. Thanks by share! German.
2010/12/30, Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda@gmail.com:
Hi All,
I've released a new version of Cog that has a substantially improved
code generator along the lines of Peter Deutsch's HPS (VisualWorks) and various of Ian Piumarta's VMs. These all use a simple tecnique to
identify
constant references in bytecode and to support a register-based calling convention. While this does produce faster code it tends to accelerate low-level code much more than high-level code as you can see by the following benchmarks:
SimpleStackBasedCogit: [1 to: 100000000 do: [:i|]] timeToRun 691 StackToRegisterMappingCogit: [1 to: 100000000 do: [:i|]] timeToRun 192 192 - 691 / 6.91 -72%
SimpleStackBasedCogit: 0 tinyBenchmarks '753495217 bytecodes/sec;
64769127
sends/sec' StackToRegisterMappingCogit: 0 tinyBenchmarks '931756141 bytecodes/sec; 128157989 sends/sec' 931756141 - 753495217 / 7534952.17 -24% 128157989 - 64769127 / 647691.27 -98%
SimpleStackBasedCogit: [Compiler recompileAll] timeToRun 47013 (no transcript StackToRegisterMappingCogit: [Compiler recompileAll] timeToRun 43406 (no transcript) 43406 - 47013 / 470.13 -7.67234594686576
The status of this code is essentially beta. The test suite runs the
same
on the new code generator as on the old, but I think there are still bugs because I get the occasional transient error. I am therefore very interested in any reproducible errors you can find.
The VMs (http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r2334/) contain a
few
other important changes:
- a bug fix to bytecode<->native pc mappng that produced incorrect
results
for methods containing blocks with ^-returns in them. One symptom is incorrect highlighting of the pc in the debugger, althoguh symptoms could
be
much serious.
- jitting interpreted methods on backward branches. Currently any
interpreted method that performs more than 20 backward branches will be considered for JIT compilation and if it is suitable (default, <= 60 literals) will be compiled to native code.
- new callback support. I need to commit some changes to the Alien
package
to provide access to this but essentially the VM's callback support is
now
able to be ported to architectures with register-based calling
conventions
(ARM, PowerPC, SPARC etc). I'll try and get the Alien code released
soon,
and to back-port the changes to the standard VM before the end of the holiday.
One thing that is still /not/ fixed is the lack of a SoundPlugin on
win32.
Apologies. I'll try and get a fix for this before the end of the
holidays
too, but time might be too tight. There are other priorities such as harmonising the standard and Cog VMs for the 4.2 release.
best Eliot
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