Literal arrays and feedback vectors for a function can be garbage
collected if we don't have a rooted closure for the function, which
happens often. It's expensive to come back from this (recreating
boilerplates and gathering feedback again), and the cost is
disproportionate if the function was inlined into optimized code.
To guard against losing these arrays when we need them, we'll now
create literal arrays when creating the feedback vector for the outer
closure, and root them strongly in that vector.
BUG=v8:5456
Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2504153002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#41893}
Allocate the registers used as arguments to a call on-demand after visiting the
argument (or reciever). This means that the visited expression can use registers
that would otherwise have been allocated for arguments which haven't been
visited yet.
The reason for doing this is to avoid keeping things live in registers
unecessarily for chained function calls, which avoids a memory leak for
functions which chain a large number of calls with large temporary arguments /
recievers.
BUG=chromium:672027
Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2557173004
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#41714}
Add a notion of "invocation count" to the baseline compilers, which
increment a special slot in the TypeFeedbackVector for each invocation
of a given function (the optimized code doesn't currently collect this
information).
Use this invocation count to relativize the call counts on the call
sites within the function, so that the inlining heuristic has a view
of relative importance of a call site rather than some absolute numbers
with unclear meaning for the current function. Also apply the call site
frequency as a factor to all frequencies in the inlinee by passing this
to the graph builders so that the importance of a call site in an
inlinee is relative to the topmost optimized function.
Note that all functions that neither have literals nor need type
feedback slots will share a single invocation count cell in the
canonical empty type feedback vector, so their invocation count is
meaningless, but that doesn't matter since we only use the invocation
count to relativize call counts within the function, which we only have
if we have at least one type feedback vector (the CallIC slot).
See the design document for additional details on this change:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VoYBhpDhJC4VlqMXCKvae-8IGuheBGxy32EOgC2LnT8
BUG=v8:5267,v8:5372
R=mvstanton@chromium.org,rmcilroy@chromium.org,mstarzinger@chromium.org
Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2337123003
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#39410}
For historical reasons, the interpreter's bytecode expectations tests
required a type for the constant pool. This had two disadvantages:
1. Strings and numbers were not visible in mixed pools, and
2. Mismatches of pool types (e.g. when rebaselining) would cause parser
errors
This removes the pool types, making everything 'mixed', but appending
the values to string and number valued constants. Specifying a pool type
in the *.golden header now prints a warning (for backwards compatibility).
BUG=v8:5350
Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2310103002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#39216}
Avoids the always generated Star bytecodes after ObjectLiteral.
BUG=v4:4820
LOG=n
Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/2216023003
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#38480}
Prints source position information alongside bytecode.
BUG=v8:4280
LOG=N
Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/1963663002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#36171}
Adapts FastCloneShallowObjectStub to enable it to be used by the
CreateObjectLiteral bytecode.
BUG=v8:4280
LOG=N
Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/1922523002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#35909}
This mechanism was used to ensure that functions ended up as constants on the map of prototypes defined using object literals, e.g.,:
function.prototype = {
method: function() { ... }
}
Nowadays we treat prototypes specially, and make all their functions constants when an object turns prototype. Hence this special custom code isn't necessary anymore.
This also affects boilerplates that do not become prototypes. Their functions will not be constants but fields instead. Calling their methods will slow down. However, multiple instances of the same boilerplate will stay monomorphic. We'll have to see what the impact is for such objects, but preliminary benchmarks do not show this as an important regression.
BUG=chromium:593008
LOG=n
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/1772423002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#34602}
Bytecode expectations have been moved to external (.golden) files,
one per test. Each test in the suite builds a representation of the
the compiled bytecode using BytecodeExpectationsPrinter. The output is
then compared to the golden file. If the comparision fails, a textual
diff can be used to identify the discrepancies.
Only the test snippets are left in the cc file, which also allows to
make it more compact and meaningful. Leaving the snippets in the cc
file was a deliberate choice to allow keeping the "truth" about the
tests in the cc file, which will rarely change, as opposed to golden
files.
Golden files can be generated and kept up to date using
generate-bytecode-expectations, which also means that the test suite
can be batch updated whenever the bytecode or golden format changes.
The golden format has been slightly amended (no more comments about
`void*`, add size of the bytecode array) following the consideration
made while converting the tests.
There is also a fix: BytecodeExpectationsPrinter::top_level_ was left
uninitialized, leading to undefined behaviour.
BUG=v8:4280
LOG=N
Review URL: https://codereview.chromium.org/1717293002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#34285}
