Right now the attached object is stored as an instance variable
and all the call sites that either get or set it have to know how it's
stored.
It's preferable to hide this implementation detail behind accessors
so that it is easier to change how it's stored.
When an object becomes "too complex" (in other words it has too many
variations in the shape tree), we transition it to use a "too complex"
shape and use a hash for storing instance variables.
Without this patch, there were rare cases where shape tree growth could
"explode" and cause performance degradation on what would otherwise have
been cached fast paths.
This patch puts a limit on shape tree growth, and gracefully degrades in
the rare case where there could be a factorial growth in the shape tree.
For example:
```ruby
class NG; end
HUGE_NUMBER.times do
NG.new.instance_variable_set(:"@unique_ivar_#{_1}", 1)
end
```
We consider objects to be "too complex" when the object's class has more
than SHAPE_MAX_VARIATIONS (currently 8) leaf nodes in the shape tree and
the object introduces a new variation (a new leaf node) associated with
that class.
For example, new variations on instances of the following class would be
considered "too complex" because those instances create more than 8
leaves in the shape tree:
```ruby
class Foo; end
9.times { Foo.new.instance_variable_set(":@uniq_#{_1}", 1) }
```
However, the following class is *not* too complex because it only has
one leaf in the shape tree:
```ruby
class Foo
def initialize
@a = @b = @c = @d = @e = @f = @g = @h = @i = nil
end
end
9.times { Foo.new }
``
This case is rare, so we don't expect this change to impact performance
of most applications, but it needs to be handled.
Co-Authored-By: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
obj_ivar_set and vm_setivar_slowpath is essentially doing the same thing,
but the code is duplicated and not quite implemented in the same way,
which could cause bugs. This commit refactors vm_setivar_slowpath to use
obj_ivar_set.
We would like to differentiate types of objects via their shape. This
commit adds a special T_OBJECT shape when we allocate an instance of
T_OBJECT. This allows us to avoid testing whether an object is an
instance of a T_OBJECT or not, we can just check the shape.
Since object shapes store the capacity of an object, we no longer
need the numiv field on RObjects. This gives us one extra slot which
we can use to give embedded objects one more instance variable (for a
total of 3 ivs). This commit removes the concept of numiv from RObject.
This commit adds a `capacity` field to shapes, and adds shape
transitions whenever an object's capacity changes. Objects which are
allocated out of a bigger size pool will also make a transition from the
root shape to the shape with the correct capacity for their size pool
when they are allocated.
This commit will allow us to remove numiv from objects completely, and
will also mean we can guarantee that if two objects share shapes, their
IVs are in the same positions (an embedded and extended object cannot
share shapes). This will enable us to implement ivar sets in YJIT using
object shapes.
Co-Authored-By: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
When we copy instance variables, it is possible for the GC to be kicked
off. The GC looks at the shape to determine what slots to mark inside
the object. If the shape is set too soon, the GC could think that there
are more instance variables on the object than there actually are at
that moment.
* Avoid RCLASS_IV_TBL in marshal.c
* Avoid RCLASS_IV_TBL for class names
* Avoid RCLASS_IV_TBL for autoload
* Avoid RCLASS_IV_TBL for class variables
* Avoid copying RCLASS_IV_TBL onto ICLASSes
* Use object shapes for Class and Module IVs
GC uses shapes to determine IV buffer width. Since allocation can
trigger GC, we need to ensure we only set the shape once we've fully
allocated new memory for the IV buffer, otherwise the GC can end up
trying to mark invalid memory.
Implements [Feature #12084]
Returns the object for which the receiver is the singleton class, or
raises TypeError if the receiver is not a singleton class.
Prior to this commit, we were reading and writing ivar index and
shape ID in inline caches in two separate instructions when
getting and setting ivars. This meant there was a race condition
with ractors and these caches where one ractor could change
a value in the cache while another was still reading from it.
This commit instead reads and writes shape ID and ivar index to
inline caches atomically so there is no longer a race condition.
Co-Authored-By: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
Co-Authored-By: John Hawthorn <john@hawthorn.email>
Object Shapes is used for accessing instance variables and representing the
"frozenness" of objects. Object instances have a "shape" and the shape
represents some attributes of the object (currently which instance variables are
set and the "frozenness"). Shapes form a tree data structure, and when a new
instance variable is set on an object, that object "transitions" to a new shape
in the shape tree. Each shape has an ID that is used for caching. The shape
structure is independent of class, so objects of different types can have the
same shape.
For example:
```ruby
class Foo
def initialize
# Starts with shape id 0
@a = 1 # transitions to shape id 1
@b = 1 # transitions to shape id 2
end
end
class Bar
def initialize
# Starts with shape id 0
@a = 1 # transitions to shape id 1
@b = 1 # transitions to shape id 2
end
end
foo = Foo.new # `foo` has shape id 2
bar = Bar.new # `bar` has shape id 2
```
Both `foo` and `bar` instances have the same shape because they both set
instance variables of the same name in the same order.
This technique can help to improve inline cache hits as well as generate more
efficient machine code in JIT compilers.
This commit also adds some methods for debugging shapes on objects. See
`RubyVM::Shape` for more details.
For more context on Object Shapes, see [Feature: #18776]
Co-Authored-By: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
Co-Authored-By: Eileen M. Uchitelle <eileencodes@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: John Hawthorn <john@hawthorn.email>
Object Shapes is used for accessing instance variables and representing the
"frozenness" of objects. Object instances have a "shape" and the shape
represents some attributes of the object (currently which instance variables are
set and the "frozenness"). Shapes form a tree data structure, and when a new
instance variable is set on an object, that object "transitions" to a new shape
in the shape tree. Each shape has an ID that is used for caching. The shape
structure is independent of class, so objects of different types can have the
same shape.
For example:
```ruby
class Foo
def initialize
# Starts with shape id 0
@a = 1 # transitions to shape id 1
@b = 1 # transitions to shape id 2
end
end
class Bar
def initialize
# Starts with shape id 0
@a = 1 # transitions to shape id 1
@b = 1 # transitions to shape id 2
end
end
foo = Foo.new # `foo` has shape id 2
bar = Bar.new # `bar` has shape id 2
```
Both `foo` and `bar` instances have the same shape because they both set
instance variables of the same name in the same order.
This technique can help to improve inline cache hits as well as generate more
efficient machine code in JIT compilers.
This commit also adds some methods for debugging shapes on objects. See
`RubyVM::Shape` for more details.
For more context on Object Shapes, see [Feature: #18776]
Co-Authored-By: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
Co-Authored-By: Eileen M. Uchitelle <eileencodes@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: John Hawthorn <john@hawthorn.email>
This commit implements Objects on Variable Width Allocation. This allows
Objects with more ivars to be embedded (i.e. contents directly follow the
object header) which improves performance through better cache locality.
Method references is not only able to be marked up as code, also
reflects `--show-hash` option.
The bug that prevented the old rdoc from correctly parsing these
methods was fixed last month.
This uses the superclass table recently introduced to implement fast
inheritance checking between classes (ex. Foo < Bar).
This is almost identical to what we do in class_search_class_ancestor
(as called by rb_obj_is_kind_of) except that we are checking both
directions: ie. both whether Foo < Bar and whether Bar < Foo.
Calling rb_obj_is_kind_of with an ICLASS returns the same result as
calling it with the ICLASS's original Module.
Most of the time we encounter an ICLASS here checking the validity of a
protected method or super call, which we expect to return true (or raise
a slow exception anyways). We can take advantage of this by performing a
fast class inheritance check on the ICLASS's "includer" in hopes that it
returns true.
If the includer class check returns false we still have to fallback to
the full inheritance chain scan for the module's inclusion, but this
should be less common.
John Bampton
BurdetteLamar
Jean Boussier
Takashi Kokubun
Nobuyoshi Nakada
Jemma Issroff
Matt Valentine-House
Peter Zhu
Aaron Patterson
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John Hawthorn
Ufuk Kayserilioglu
Jeremy Evans
Akshay Birajdar