In December 2021, we opened an [issue] to solicit feedback regarding the
porting of the YJIT codebase from C99 to Rust. There were some
reservations, but this project was given the go ahead by Ruby core
developers and Matz. Since then, we have successfully completed the port
of YJIT to Rust.
The new Rust version of YJIT has reached parity with the C version, in
that it passes all the CRuby tests, is able to run all of the YJIT
benchmarks, and performs similarly to the C version (because it works
the same way and largely generates the same machine code). We've even
incorporated some design improvements, such as a more fine-grained
constant invalidation mechanism which we expect will make a big
difference in Ruby on Rails applications.
Because we want to be careful, YJIT is guarded behind a configure
option:
```shell
./configure --enable-yjit # Build YJIT in release mode
./configure --enable-yjit=dev # Build YJIT in dev/debug mode
```
By default, YJIT does not get compiled and cargo/rustc is not required.
If YJIT is built in dev mode, then `cargo` is used to fetch development
dependencies, but when building in release, `cargo` is not required,
only `rustc`. At the moment YJIT requires Rust 1.60.0 or newer.
The YJIT command-line options remain mostly unchanged, and more details
about the build process are documented in `doc/yjit/yjit.md`.
The CI tests have been updated and do not take any more resources than
before.
The development history of the Rust port is available at the following
commit for interested parties:
1fd9573d8b
Our hope is that Rust YJIT will be compiled and included as a part of
system packages and compiled binaries of the Ruby 3.2 release. We do not
anticipate any major problems as Rust is well supported on every
platform which YJIT supports, but to make sure that this process works
smoothly, we would like to reach out to those who take care of building
systems packages before the 3.2 release is shipped and resolve any
issues that may come up.
[issue]: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18481
Co-authored-by: Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert <maximechevalierb@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Noah Gibbs <the.codefolio.guy@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Kevin Newton <kddnewton@gmail.com>
[Feature #17881]
Works similarly to `method_added` but for constants.
```ruby
Foo::BAR = 42 # call Foo.const_added(:FOO)
class Foo::Baz; end # call Foo.const_added(:Baz)
Foo.autoload(:Something, "path") # call Foo.const_added(:Something)
```
* Move the rubyspec running recipe after the rule for rubyspec
C-API extension library, so that separate dummy recipe is not
needed.
* Add a dummy recipe for rubyspec.h before the rubyspec running
recipe, so that the dependency of extensions do not fire the
latter.
./spec/ruby/optional/capi/ext/array_spec.c can match with spec/%/ if
using GNU Make under version 3.81. make command installed on macOS is
3.81, so ruby can't be built with default make on macOS with
--enable-shared option since bda56a03a6
[0] => [0, *, a]
#=> [0] length mismatch (given 1, expected 2+) (NoMatchingPatternError)
Ignore test failures of typeprof caused by this change for now.
Try update and extract bundled gems only when baseruby is
available. It should be done only when installing from
developemental build and not from the tarball, but it is not
obvious to differentiate them.
While `spec/bundler` and `spec/bundler/` are treated different
targets by GNU make 4, the same target by GNU make 3. The latter
target, ending with a slash, was to run `test-bundler-parallel`,
instead of `spec/bundler/%`.
As the currently released/snapshot tarballs should contain the
bundled gems extracted already, RUNRUBY is not required when
building from them with GNU make.
Nobuyoshi Nakada
Alan Wu
Jean Boussier
Yuta Saito
Kazuki Tsujimoto