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This changes registers to be temporarily stored in wasm locals, across
each complete wasm module. Registers are moved from memory to locals
upon entering the wasm module and moved from locals to memory upon
leaving. Additionally, calls to functions that modify registers are
wrapped between moving registers to memory before and moving back to
locals after. This affects:
1. All non-custom instructions
2. safe_{read,write}_slow, since it may page fault (the slow path of all memory accesses)
3. task_switch_test* and trigger_ud
4. All block boundaries
5. The fallback functions of gen_safe_read_write (read-modify-write memory accesses)
The performance benefits are currently mostly eaten up by 1. and 4. (if
one calculates the total number of read/writes to registers in memory,
they are higher after this patch, as each instructions of typ 1. or 4.
requires moving all 8 register twice). This can be improved later by the
relatively mechanical work of making instructions custom (not
necessarily full code generation, only the part of the instruction where
registers are accessed). Multi-page wasm module generation will
significantly reduce the number of type 4. instructions.
Due to 2., the overall code size has significantly increased. This case
(the slow path of memory access) is often generated but rarely executed.
These moves can be removed in a later patch by a different scheme for
safe_{read,write}_slow, which has been left out of this patch for
simplicity of reviewing.
This also simplifies our code generation for storing registers, as
instructions_body.const_i32(register_offset);
// some computations ...
instruction_body.store_i32();
turns into:
// some computations ...
write_register(register_index);
I.e., a prefix is not necessary anymore as locals are indexed directly.
Further patches will allow getting rid of some temporary locals, as
registers now can be used directly.
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| generate_analyzer.js | ||
| generate_interpreter.js | ||
| generate_jit.js | ||
| rust_ast.js | ||
| util.js | ||
| x86_table.js | ||