constant known at compile time. Do not ever use the stack to
materialize (non-function-argument) constants. Currently, constants
are only the non-materialized, non-function literals in the AST.
It is a known issue that there is no test coverage for the cases of
assigning a non-literal to a variable and returning a literal. Those
code paths are unreachable and tests will be added when they become
reachable.
For the code '.result = true', we had previously on ia32:
27 push 0xf5c28161 ;; object: 0xf5c28161 <true>
32 pop [ebp+0xf4]
Now:
27 mov eax,0xf5c26161 ;; object: 0xf5c26161 <true>
32 mov [ebp+0xf4],eax
======== We had previously on x64:
25 movq r10,0x7fb8c2f78199 ;; object: 0x7fb8c2f78199 <true>
35 push r10
37 pop [rbp-0x18]
Now:
25 movq r10,0x7fb131386199 ;; object: 0x7fb131386199 <true>
35 movq [rbp-0x18],r10
The generated code for ARM did not include the extra memory traffic.
It was already eliminated by the ARM assembler's push/pop elimination.
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Slots appear only indirectly in the AST (through variables linked to
variable proxies). Slots are shared among variable references, so
putting compilation-time state on them is potentially a source of
bugs. Avoid it for now.
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fast-mode code generator.
AST expression nodes are annotated with a location when doing the
initial syntactic check of the AST. In the current implementation,
expression locations are 'temporary' (ie, allocated to the stack) or
'nowhere' (ie, the expression's value is not needed though it must be
evaluated for side effects).
For the assignment '.result = true' on IA32, we had before (with the
true value already on top of the stack):
32 mov eax,[esp]
35 mov [ebp+0xf4],eax
38 pop eax
Now:
32 pop [ebp+0xf4]
======== On x64, before:
37 movq rax,[rsp]
41 movq [rbp-0x18],rax
45 pop rax
Now:
37 pop [rbp-0x18]
======== On ARM, before (with the true value in register ip):
36 str ip, [sp, #-4]!
40 ldr ip, [sp, #+0]
44 str ip, [fp, #-12]
48 add sp, sp, #4
Now:
36 str ip, [fp, #-12]
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fast code generator is optimized for compilation time and code size.
Currently it is only implemented on IA32. It is potentially triggered
for any code in the global scope (including code eval'd in the global
scope). It performs a syntactic check and chooses to compile in fast
mode if the AST contains only supported constructs and matches some
other constraints.
Initially supported constructs are
* ExpressionStatement,
* ReturnStatement,
* VariableProxy (variable references) to parameters and
stack-allocated locals,
* Assignment with lhs a parameter or stack-allocated local, and
* Literal
This allows compilation of literals at the top level and not much
else.
All intermediate values are allocated to temporaries and the stack is
used for all temporaries. The extra memory traffic is a known issue.
The code generated for 'true' is:
0 push ebp
1 mov ebp,esp
3 push esi
4 push edi
5 push 0xf5cca135 ;; object: 0xf5cca135 <undefined>
10 cmp esp,[0x8277efc]
16 jnc 27 (0xf5cbbb1b)
22 call 0xf5cac960 ;; code: STUB, StackCheck, minor: 0
27 push 0xf5cca161 ;; object: 0xf5cca161 <true>
32 mov eax,[esp]
35 mov [ebp+0xf4],eax
38 pop eax
39 mov eax,[ebp+0xf4]
42 mov esp,ebp ;; js return
44 pop ebp
45 ret 0x4
48 mov eax,0xf5cca135 ;; object: 0xf5cca135 <undefined>
53 mov esp,ebp ;; js return
55 pop ebp
56 ret 0x4
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