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authorDavid Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>2014-10-24 16:26:38 +0100
committerDavid Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>2014-12-07 09:24:55 +0000
commitfedf30e1c349130b23648c022f5f3cb4ad7928f3 (patch)
tree59634b92647baec7686f67156a199f0f33ef19bb /embed.fnc
parent2f7c6295c991839e20b09fbf3107b861d511de31 (diff)
downloadperl-fedf30e1c349130b23648c022f5f3cb4ad7928f3.tar.gz
Add OP_MULTIDEREF
This op is an optimisation for any series of one or more array or hash lookups and dereferences, where the key/index is a simple constant or package/lexical variable. If the first-level lookup is of a simple array/hash variable or scalar ref, then that is included in the op too. So all of the following are replaced with a single op: $h{foo} $a[$i] $a[5][$k][$i] $r->{$k} local $a[0][$i] exists $a[$i]{$k} delete $h{foo} while these aren't: $a[0] already handled by OP_AELEMFAST $a[$x+1] not a simple index and these are partially replaced: (expr)->[0]{$k} the bit following (expr) is replaced $h{foo}[$x+1][0] the first and third lookups are each done with a multideref op, while the $x+1 expression and middle lookup are done by existing add, aelem etc ops. Up until now, aggregate dereferencing has been very heavyweight in ops; for example, $r->[0]{$x} is compiled as: gv[*r] s rv2sv sKM/DREFAV,1 rv2av[t2] sKR/1 const[IV 0] s aelem sKM/DREFHV,2 rv2hv sKR/1 gvsv[*x] s helem vK/2 When executing this, in addition to the actual calls to av_fetch() and hv_fetch(), there is a lot of overhead of pushing SVs on and off the stack, and calling lots of little pp() functions from the runops loop (each with its potential indirect branch miss). The multideref op avoids that by running all the code in a loop in a switch statement. It makes use of the new UNOP_AUX type to hold an array of typedef union { PADOFFSET pad_offset; SV *sv; IV iv; UV uv; } UNOP_AUX_item; In something like $a[7][$i]{foo}, the GVs or pad offsets for @a and $i are stored as items in the array, along with a pointer to a const SV holding 'foo', and the UV 7 is stored directly. Along with this, some UVs are used to store a sequence of actions (several actions are squeezed into a single UV). Then the main body of pp_multideref is a big while loop round a switch, which reads actions and values from the AUX array. The two big branches in the switch are ones that are affectively unrolled (/DREFAV, rv2av, aelem) and (/DREFHV, rv2hv, helem) triplets. The other branches are various entry points that handle retrieving the different types of initial value; for example 'my %h; $h{foo}' needs to get %h from the pad, while '(expr)->{foo}' needs to pop expr off the stack. Note that there is a slight complication with /DEREF; in the example above of $r->[0]{$x}, the aelem op is actually aelem sKM/DREFHV,2 which means that the aelem, after having retrieved a (possibly undef) value from the array, is responsible for autovivifying it into a hash, ready for the next op. Similarly, the rv2sv that retrieves $r from the typeglob is responsible for autovivifying it into an AV. This action of doing the next op's work for it complicates matters somewhat. Within pp_multideref, the autovivification action is instead included as the first step of the current action. In terms of benchmarking with Porting/bench.pl, a simple lexical $a[$i][$j] shows a reduction of approx 40% in numbers of instructions executed, while $r->[0][0][0] uses 54% fewer. The speed-up for hash accesses is relatively more modest, since the actual hash lookup (i.e. hv_fetch()) is more expensive than an array lookup. A lexical $h{foo} uses 10% fewer, while $r->{foo}{bar}{baz} uses 34% fewer instructions. Overall, bench.pl --tests='/expr::(array|hash)/' ... gives: PRE POST ------ ------ Ir 100.00 145.00 Dr 100.00 165.30 Dw 100.00 175.74 COND 100.00 132.02 IND 100.00 171.11 COND_m 100.00 127.65 IND_m 100.00 203.90 with cache misses unchanged at 100%. In general, the more lookups done, the bigger the proportionate saving.
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diff --git a/embed.fnc b/embed.fnc
index 26d893d13d..c7b283b9f6 100644
--- a/embed.fnc
+++ b/embed.fnc
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@ ApR |I32 |cxinc
Afp |void |deb |NN const char* pat|...
Ap |void |vdeb |NN const char* pat|NULLOK va_list* args
Ap |void |debprofdump
+EXp |SV* |unop_aux_stringify |NN const OP* o|NN CV *cv
Ap |I32 |debop |NN const OP* o
Ap |I32 |debstack
Ap |I32 |debstackptrs
@@ -2651,7 +2652,8 @@ s |SV * |find_hash_subscript|NULLOK const HV *const hv \
s |I32 |find_array_subscript|NULLOK const AV *const av \
|NN const SV *const val
sMd |SV* |find_uninit_var|NULLOK const OP *const obase \
- |NULLOK const SV *const uninit_sv|bool top
+ |NULLOK const SV *const uninit_sv|bool match \
+ |NN const char **desc_p
#endif
Ap |GV* |gv_fetchpvn_flags|NN const char* name|STRLEN len|I32 flags|const svtype sv_type