combination with `send` method (optimized) or `method_missing`
and forwarding send (`...`) needs to respect given
`rb_forwarding_call_data`. Otherwize it causes critical error
such as SEGV.
This commit adds `sendforward` and `invokesuperforward` for forwarding
parameters to calls
Co-authored-by: Matt Valentine-House <matt@eightbitraptor.com>
This patch optimizes forwarding callers and callees. It only optimizes methods that only take `...` as their parameter, and then pass `...` to other calls.
Calls it optimizes look like this:
```ruby
def bar(a) = a
def foo(...) = bar(...) # optimized
foo(123)
```
```ruby
def bar(a) = a
def foo(...) = bar(1, 2, ...) # optimized
foo(123)
```
```ruby
def bar(*a) = a
def foo(...)
list = [1, 2]
bar(*list, ...) # optimized
end
foo(123)
```
All variants of the above but using `super` are also optimized, including a bare super like this:
```ruby
def foo(...)
super
end
```
This patch eliminates intermediate allocations made when calling methods that accept `...`.
We can observe allocation elimination like this:
```ruby
def m
x = GC.stat(:total_allocated_objects)
yield
GC.stat(:total_allocated_objects) - x
end
def bar(a) = a
def foo(...) = bar(...)
def test
m { foo(123) }
end
test
p test # allocates 1 object on master, but 0 objects with this patch
```
```ruby
def bar(a, b:) = a + b
def foo(...) = bar(...)
def test
m { foo(1, b: 2) }
end
test
p test # allocates 2 objects on master, but 0 objects with this patch
```
How does it work?
-----------------
This patch works by using a dynamic stack size when passing forwarded parameters to callees.
The caller's info object (known as the "CI") contains the stack size of the
parameters, so we pass the CI object itself as a parameter to the callee.
When forwarding parameters, the forwarding ISeq uses the caller's CI to determine how much stack to copy, then copies the caller's stack before calling the callee.
The CI at the forwarded call site is adjusted using information from the caller's CI.
I think this description is kind of confusing, so let's walk through an example with code.
```ruby
def delegatee(a, b) = a + b
def delegator(...)
delegatee(...) # CI2 (FORWARDING)
end
def caller
delegator(1, 2) # CI1 (argc: 2)
end
```
Before we call the delegator method, the stack looks like this:
```
Executing Line | Code | Stack
---------------+---------------------------------------+--------
1| def delegatee(a, b) = a + b | self
2| | 1
3| def delegator(...) | 2
4| # |
5| delegatee(...) # CI2 (FORWARDING) |
6| end |
7| |
8| def caller |
-> 9| delegator(1, 2) # CI1 (argc: 2) |
10| end |
```
The ISeq for `delegator` is tagged as "forwardable", so when `caller` calls in
to `delegator`, it writes `CI1` on to the stack as a local variable for the
`delegator` method. The `delegator` method has a special local called `...`
that holds the caller's CI object.
Here is the ISeq disasm fo `delegator`:
```
== disasm: #<ISeq:delegator@-e:1 (1,0)-(1,39)>
local table (size: 1, argc: 0 [opts: 0, rest: -1, post: 0, block: -1, kw: -1@-1, kwrest: -1])
[ 1] "..."@0
0000 putself ( 1)[LiCa]
0001 getlocal_WC_0 "..."@0
0003 send <calldata!mid:delegatee, argc:0, FCALL|FORWARDING>, nil
0006 leave [Re]
```
The local called `...` will contain the caller's CI: CI1.
Here is the stack when we enter `delegator`:
```
Executing Line | Code | Stack
---------------+---------------------------------------+--------
1| def delegatee(a, b) = a + b | self
2| | 1
3| def delegator(...) | 2
-> 4| # | CI1 (argc: 2)
5| delegatee(...) # CI2 (FORWARDING) | cref_or_me
6| end | specval
7| | type
8| def caller |
9| delegator(1, 2) # CI1 (argc: 2) |
10| end |
```
The CI at `delegatee` on line 5 is tagged as "FORWARDING", so it knows to
memcopy the caller's stack before calling `delegatee`. In this case, it will
memcopy self, 1, and 2 to the stack before calling `delegatee`. It knows how much
memory to copy from the caller because `CI1` contains stack size information
(argc: 2).
Before executing the `send` instruction, we push `...` on the stack. The
`send` instruction pops `...`, and because it is tagged with `FORWARDING`, it
knows to memcopy (using the information in the CI it just popped):
```
== disasm: #<ISeq:delegator@-e:1 (1,0)-(1,39)>
local table (size: 1, argc: 0 [opts: 0, rest: -1, post: 0, block: -1, kw: -1@-1, kwrest: -1])
[ 1] "..."@0
0000 putself ( 1)[LiCa]
0001 getlocal_WC_0 "..."@0
0003 send <calldata!mid:delegatee, argc:0, FCALL|FORWARDING>, nil
0006 leave [Re]
```
Instruction 001 puts the caller's CI on the stack. `send` is tagged with
FORWARDING, so it reads the CI and _copies_ the callers stack to this stack:
```
Executing Line | Code | Stack
---------------+---------------------------------------+--------
1| def delegatee(a, b) = a + b | self
2| | 1
3| def delegator(...) | 2
4| # | CI1 (argc: 2)
-> 5| delegatee(...) # CI2 (FORWARDING) | cref_or_me
6| end | specval
7| | type
8| def caller | self
9| delegator(1, 2) # CI1 (argc: 2) | 1
10| end | 2
```
The "FORWARDING" call site combines information from CI1 with CI2 in order
to support passing other values in addition to the `...` value, as well as
perfectly forward splat args, kwargs, etc.
Since we're able to copy the stack from `caller` in to `delegator`'s stack, we
can avoid allocating objects.
I want to do this to eliminate object allocations for delegate methods.
My long term goal is to implement `Class#new` in Ruby and it uses `...`.
I was able to implement `Class#new` in Ruby
[here](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/9289).
If we adopt the technique in this patch, then we can optimize allocating
objects that take keyword parameters for `initialize`.
For example, this code will allocate 2 objects: one for `SomeObject`, and one
for the kwargs:
```ruby
SomeObject.new(foo: 1)
```
If we combine this technique, plus implement `Class#new` in Ruby, then we can
reduce allocations for this common operation.
Co-Authored-By: John Hawthorn <john@hawthorn.email>
Co-Authored-By: Alan Wu <XrXr@users.noreply.github.com>
[Feature #20205]
Now that chilled strings no longer appear as frozen, there is no
need to offer an API to check for chilled strings.
We however need to change `rb_check_frozen_internal` to no
longer be a macro, as it needs to check for chilled strings.
`RUBY_TRY_UNUSED_BLOCK_WARNING_STRICT=1 ruby ...` will enable
strict check for unused block warning.
This option is only for trial to compare the results so the
envname is not considered well.
Should be removed before Ruby 3.4.0 release.
When we're searching for CCs, compare the argc and flags for CI rather
than comparing pointers. This means we don't need to store a reference
to the CI, and it also naturally "de-duplicates" CC objects.
We can observe the effect with the following code:
```ruby
require "objspace"
hash = {}
p ObjectSpace.memsize_of(Hash)
eval ("a".."zzz").map { |key|
"hash.merge(:#{key} => 1)"
}.join("; ")
p ObjectSpace.memsize_of(Hash)
```
On master:
```
$ ruby -v test.rb
ruby 3.4.0dev (2024-04-15T16:21:41Z master d019b3baec) [arm64-darwin23]
test.rb:3: warning: assigned but unused variable - hash
3424
527736
```
On this branch:
```
$ make runruby
compiling vm.c
linking miniruby
builtin_binary.inc updated
compiling builtin.c
linking static-library libruby.3.4-static.a
ln -sf ../../rbconfig.rb .ext/arm64-darwin23/rbconfig.rb
linking ruby
ld: warning: ignoring duplicate libraries: '-ldl', '-lobjc', '-lpthread'
RUBY_ON_BUG='gdb -x ./.gdbinit -p' ./miniruby -I./lib -I. -I.ext/common ./tool/runruby.rb --extout=.ext -- --disable-gems ./test.rb
2240
2368
```
Co-authored-by: John Hawthorn <jhawthorn@github.com>
if a method `foo` uses a block, other (unrelated) method `foo`
can receives a block. So try to relax the unused block warning
condition.
```ruby
class C0
def f = yield
end
class C1 < C0
def f = nil
end
[C0, C1].f{ block } # do not warn
```
With verbopse mode (-w), the interpreter shows a warning if
a block is passed to a method which does not use the given block.
Warning on:
* the invoked method is written in C
* the invoked method is not `initialize`
* not invoked with `super`
* the first time on the call-site with the invoked method
(`obj.foo{}` will be warned once if `foo` is same method)
[Feature #15554]
`Primitive.attr! :use_block` is introduced to declare that primitive
functions (written in C) will use passed block.
For minitest, test needs some tweak, so use
ea9caafc07
for `test-bundled-gems`.
This frees FL_USER0 on both T_MODULE and T_CLASS.
Note: prior to this, FL_SINGLETON was never set on T_MODULE,
so checking for `FL_SINGLETON` without first checking that
`FL_TYPE` was `T_CLASS` was valid. That's no longer the case.
* YJIT: Lazily push a frame for specialized C funcs
Co-authored-by: Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert <maxime.chevalierboisvert@shopify.com>
* Fix a comment on pc_to_cfunc
* Rename rb_yjit_check_pc to rb_yjit_lazy_push_frame
* Rename it to jit_prepare_lazy_frame_call
* Fix a typo
* Optimize String#getbyte as well
* Optimize String#byteslice as well
---------
Co-authored-by: Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert <maxime.chevalierboisvert@shopify.com>
Rather than exposing that an imemo has a flag and four fields, this
changes the implementation to only expose one field (the klass) and
fills the rest with 0. The type will have to fill in the values themselves.
This instruction is similar to concatarray, but assumes the first
object is already an array, and appends to it directly. This is
different than concatarray, which will create a new array instead
of appending to an existing array.
Additionally, for both concatarray and concattoarray, if the second
argument cannot be converted to an array, then just push it onto
the array, instead of creating a new array to wrap it, and then
using concat array. This saves an array allocation in that case.
This allows `f(*a, *a, *1)` to allocate only a single array on the
caller side (which can be reused on the callee side in the case of
`def f(*a)`). Prior to this commit, `f(*a, *a, *1)` would generate
4 arrays:
* a dupped by splatarray true
* a dupped again by first concatarray
* 1 wrapped in array by third splatarray
* result of [*a, *a] dupped by second concatarray
Instructions Before for `a = []; f(*a, *a, *1)`:
```
0000 newarray 0 ( 1)[Li]
0002 setlocal_WC_0 a@0
0004 putself
0005 getlocal_WC_0 a@0
0007 splatarray true
0009 getlocal_WC_0 a@0
0011 splatarray false
0013 concatarray
0014 putobject_INT2FIX_1_
0015 splatarray false
0017 concatarray
0018 opt_send_without_block <calldata!mid:g, argc:1, ARGS_SPLAT|ARGS_SPLAT_MUT|FCALL>
0020 leave
```
Instructions After for `a = []; f(*a, *a, *1)`:
```
0000 newarray 0 ( 1)[Li]
0002 setlocal_WC_0 a@0
0004 putself
0005 getlocal_WC_0 a@0
0007 splatarray true
0009 getlocal_WC_0 a@0
0011 concattoarray
0012 putobject_INT2FIX_1_
0013 concattoarray
0014 opt_send_without_block <calldata!mid:f, argc:1, ARGS_SPLAT|ARGS_SPLAT_MUT|FCALL>
0016 leave
```
to BUILTIN_ATTR_SINGLE_NOARG_LEAF
The attribute was created when the other attribute was called BUILTIN_ATTR_INLINE.
Now that the original attribute is renamed to BUILTIN_ATTR_LEAF, it's
only confusing that we call it "_INLINE".
nil is treated similarly to the empty hash in this case, passing
no keywords and not calling any conversion methods.
Fixes [Bug #20064]
Co-authored-by: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
This follows the same approach used for attr_reader/attr_writer in
2d98593bf5, skipping the checking for
tracing after the first call using the call cache, and clearing the
call cache when tracing is turned on/off.
Fixes [Bug #18886]
Since Ruby 2.4, `return` is supported at toplevel. This makes `eval "return"`
also supported at toplevel.
This mostly uses the same tests as direct `return` at toplevel, with a couple
differences:
`END {return if false}` is a SyntaxError, but `END {eval "return" if false}`
is not an error since the eval is never executed. `END {return}` is a
SyntaxError, but `END {eval "return"}` is a LocalJumpError.
The following is a SyntaxError:
```ruby
class X
nil&defined?0--begin e=no_method_error(); return; 0;end
end
```
However, the following is not, because the eval is never executed:
```ruby
class X
nil&defined?0--begin e=no_method_error(); eval "return"; 0;end
end
```
Fixes [Bug #19779]
The expandarray instruction can allocate an array, which can trigger
a GC compaction. However, since it does not increment the sp until the
end of the instruction, the objects it places on the stack are not
marked or reference updated by the GC, which can cause the objects to
move which leaves broken or incorrect objects on the stack.
This commit changes the instruction to be handles_sp so the sp is
incremented inside of the instruction right after the object is written
on the stack.
Previously, we didn't invalidate the method entry wrapped by
VM_METHOD_TYPE_REFINED method entries which could cause calls to
land in the wrong method like it did in the included test.
Do the invalidation, and adjust rb_method_entry_clone() to accommodate
this new invalidation vector.
Fix: cfd7729ce7
See-also: e201b81f79
We've seen occasional CI failures on i686 in this codepath:
```
[BUG] vm_setivar_slowpath: didn't find ivar @verify_depth in shape
```
Generic ivars are very complex to get right, but also quite rare.
I don't see a good reason to take the risk to give them an optimized
path here, when the much more common T_CLASS/T_MODULE don't have one.
Having an optimization here means duplicating the fairly brittle
logic, which is a recipe for bugs, and I don't think it's worth
it in such case.
When an inline cache misses, it is very likely that the stale shape_id
and the current instance shape_id have a close common ancestor.
For example if the instance variable is sometimes frozen sometimes
not, one of the two shape will be the direct parent of the other.
Another pattern that commonly cause IC misses is "memoization",
in such case the object will have a "base common shape" and then
a number of close descendants.
In addition, when we find a common ancestor, we store it in the
inline cache instead of the current shape. This help prevent the
cache from flip-flopping, ensuring the next lookup will be marginally
faster and more generally avoid writing in memory too much.
However, now that shapes have an ancestors index, we only check
for a few ancestors before falling back to use the index.
So overall this change speeds up what is assumed to be the more common
case, but makes what is assumed to be the less common case a bit slower.
```
compare-ruby: ruby 3.3.0dev (2023-10-26T05:30:17Z master 701ca070b4) [arm64-darwin22]
built-ruby: ruby 3.3.0dev (2023-10-26T09:25:09Z shapes_double_sear.. a723a85235) [arm64-darwin22]
warming up......
| |compare-ruby|built-ruby|
|:------------------------------------|-----------:|---------:|
|vm_ivar_stable_shape | 11.672M| 11.679M|
| | -| 1.00x|
|vm_ivar_memoize_unstable_shape | 7.551M| 10.506M|
| | -| 1.39x|
|vm_ivar_memoize_unstable_shape_miss | 11.591M| 11.624M|
| | -| 1.00x|
|vm_ivar_unstable_undef | 9.037M| 7.981M|
| | 1.13x| -|
|vm_ivar_divergent_shape | 8.034M| 6.657M|
| | 1.21x| -|
|vm_ivar_divergent_shape_imbalanced | 10.471M| 9.231M|
| | 1.13x| -|
```
Co-Authored-By: John Hawthorn <john@hawthorn.email>
On 32-bit systems, we must store the shape ID in the gen_ivtbl to not
lose the shape. If we directly store the ST table into the generic
ivar table, then we lose the shape. This makes it impossible to
determine the shape of the object and whether it is too complex or not.