[Vm-dev] New Cog VMs available

[karl ramberg]

With latest windows SpurVm the test 1 to: 50 do:[: i | Browser open] runs
without any crash.

I have not tested the VM much othervice, but it looks much more stable.

Best regards,
Karl





On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> ... at http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3085/.
>
> CogVM binaries as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.887/r3085
>
> Spur:
> Change become to flush method caches for becommed classes.
>
> Changes are to
> - add a BecameActiveClassFlag to becomeEffectsFlags
> - refuse to do an in-place become on active classes.
> - flush the caches before the post-become scan of the class table so that
> forwarded classes can be spotted.  i.e. if a class index in a method cache
> is that of a forwarded class then it was becommed and the cache entry can
> be voided.
>
> Fix bug in sweepToFollowForwardersForPigCompact which failed to update and
> answer lowest forwarder.  Fixes numForwarders == 0 assert failures.
>
> Fix bug with become and class table not removing
> classes which become causes them to be unhashed.
>
> Fix bogus assert fail in synchronousSignal:. Refactor following code into
> ensureSemaphoreForwardedThroughContext: and fix the assert there-in.
>
> Use rawOverflowSlotsOf: in bytesInObject:.
>
> Cogit:
> Make sure voidImplicitReceiverCacheAt: sets codeModified if IRCs are
> inline.
>
> Make sure freeMethod: clears cmRefersToYoung
>
> Fix assert in cogitPostGCAction: that would fire erroneously in Spur
> become.
>
> Fix regression in V3 become youngReferrers management in
> VMMaker.oscog-eem.882.
> We /must/ prune young referrers if
> mapObjectReferencesInMachineCodeForBecome
> removes a cog method from youngReferrers because it may get added back and
> youngReferrers cannot contain duplicates.
>
> Fix potential bug in Spur become argument validation.  Check for immediates
> needs to come /after/ following forwarders since an object can
> become-forward
> to an immediate.
>
> Fix cPICHasForwardedClass:; this did /not/
> enumerate the classIndices in a Spur Closed PIC.
>
> Install the callPrimitiveBytecode in the Interpreter's
> bytecodeDispatchTable on Spur.
>
> Modify callPrimitiveBytecode to not invoke unknownBytecode processing if
> at the
> first bytecode of a primitive method.
>
> Correct sign comparison of instructionPointer in justActivateNewMethod.
>
> Relax the validInstructionPointer:inMethod:framePointer:
> assert to accept any pc in initialPC to self size range
> now that callPrimitiveBytecode is more forgiving.
>
> Speed up primitiveMarkUnwindMethod & primitiveMarkHandlerMethod in the
> StackInterpreter by setting them to 0 in the primitive table.
>
> --
> best,
> Eliot
>
>
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