Compare with the C methods, A built-in methods written in Ruby is
slower if only mandatory parameters are given because it needs to
check the argumens and fill default values for optional and keyword
parameters (C methods can check the number of parameters with `argc`,
so there are no overhead). Passing mandatory arguments are common
(optional arguments are exceptional, in many cases) so it is important
to provide the fast path for such common cases.
`Primitive.mandatory_only?` is a special builtin function used with
`if` expression like that:
```ruby
def self.at(time, subsec = false, unit = :microsecond, in: nil)
if Primitive.mandatory_only?
Primitive.time_s_at1(time)
else
Primitive.time_s_at(time, subsec, unit, Primitive.arg!(:in))
end
end
```
and it makes two ISeq,
```
def self.at(time, subsec = false, unit = :microsecond, in: nil)
Primitive.time_s_at(time, subsec, unit, Primitive.arg!(:in))
end
def self.at(time)
Primitive.time_s_at1(time)
end
```
and (2) is pointed by (1). Note that `Primitive.mandatory_only?`
should be used only in a condition of an `if` statement and the
`if` statement should be equal to the methdo body (you can not
put any expression before and after the `if` statement).
A method entry with `mandatory_only?` (`Time.at` on the above case)
is marked as `iseq_overload`. When the method will be dispatch only
with mandatory arguments (`Time.at(0)` for example), make another
method entry with ISeq (2) as mandatory only method entry and it
will be cached in an inline method cache.
The idea is similar discussed in https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/16254
but it only checks mandatory parameters or more, because many cases
only mandatory parameters are given. If we find other cases (optional
or keyword parameters are used frequently and it hurts performance),
we can extend the feature.
In vm_call_method_each_type, check for c_call and c_return events before
dispatching to vm_call_ivar and vm_call_attrset. With this approach, the
call cache will still dispatch directly to those functions, so this
change will only decrease performance for the first (uncached) call, and
even then, the performance decrease is very minimal.
This approach requires that we clear the call caches when tracing is
enabled or disabled. The approach currently switches all vm_call_ivar
and vm_call_attrset call caches to vm_call_general any time tracing is
enabled or disabled. So it could theoretically result in a slowdown for
code that constantly enables or disables tracing.
This approach does not handle targeted tracepoints, but from my testing,
c_call and c_return events are not supported for targeted tracepoints,
so that shouldn't matter.
This includes a benchmark showing the performance decrease is minimal
if detectable at all.
Fixes [Bug #16383]
Fixes [Bug #10470]
Co-authored-by: Takashi Kokubun <takashikkbn@gmail.com>
This commit removes T_PAYLOAD since the new VWA implementation no longer
requires T_PAYLOAD types.
Co-authored-by: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
This commit removes T_PAYLOAD since the new VWA implementation no longer
requires T_PAYLOAD types.
Co-authored-by: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>
This changes Thread::Location::Backtrace#absolute_path to return
nil for methods/procs defined in eval. If the realpath of an iseq
is nil, that indicates it was defined in eval, in which case you
cannot use RubyVM::AbstractSyntaxTree.of.
Fixes [Bug #16983]
Co-authored-by: Koichi Sasada <ko1@atdot.net>
"alias" type method entries can chain another aliased method
so that machine stack can be overflow on nested alias chain.
http://ci.rvm.jp/results/trunk-repeat20@phosphorus-docker/3344209
This patch fix this issue by use goto instead of recursion if possible.
TODO: Essentially, the alias method should not points another aliased
method entry. Try to fix it later.
rb_funcall* (rb_funcall(), rb_funcallv(), ...) functions invokes
Ruby's method with given receiver. Ruby 2.7 introduced inline method
cache with static memory area. However, Ruby 3.0 reimplemented the
method cache data structures and the inline cache was removed.
Without inline cache, rb_funcall* searched methods everytime.
Most of cases per-Class Method Cache (pCMC) will be helped but
pCMC requires VM-wide locking and it hurts performance on
multi-Ractor execution, especially all Ractors calls methods
with rb_funcall*.
This patch introduced Global Call-Cache Cache Table (gccct) for
rb_funcall*. Call-Cache was introduced from Ruby 3.0 to manage
method cache entry atomically and gccct enables method-caching
without VM-wide locking. This table solves the performance issue
on multi-ractor execution.
[Bug #17497]
Ruby-level method invocation does not use gccct because it has
inline-method-cache and the table size is limited. Basically
rb_funcall* is not used frequently, so 1023 entries can be enough.
We will revisit the table size if it is not enough.
add cc_found_in_ccs (renamed from cc_found_ccs), cc_not_found_in_ccs,
call0_public, call0_other debug counters to measure more details.
also it contains several modification.
`cd` is passed to method call functions to method invocation
functions, but `cd` can be manipulated by other ractors simultaneously
so it contains thread-safety issue.
To solve this issue, this patch stores `ci` and found `cc` to `calling`
and stops to pass `cd`.
Not every compilers understand that rb_raise does not return. When a
function does not end with a return statement, such compilers can issue
warnings. We would better tell them about reachabilities.
This patch contains several ideas:
(1) Disposable inline method cache (IMC) for race-free inline method cache
* Making call-cache (CC) as a RVALUE (GC target object) and allocate new
CC on cache miss.
* This technique allows race-free access from parallel processing
elements like RCU.
(2) Introduce per-Class method cache (pCMC)
* Instead of fixed-size global method cache (GMC), pCMC allows flexible
cache size.
* Caching CCs reduces CC allocation and allow sharing CC's fast-path
between same call-info (CI) call-sites.
(3) Invalidate an inline method cache by invalidating corresponding method
entries (MEs)
* Instead of using class serials, we set "invalidated" flag for method
entry itself to represent cache invalidation.
* Compare with using class serials, the impact of method modification
(add/overwrite/delete) is small.
* Updating class serials invalidate all method caches of the class and
sub-classes.
* Proposed approach only invalidate the method cache of only one ME.
See [Feature #16614] for more details.
Now, rb_call_info contains how to call the method with tuple of
(mid, orig_argc, flags, kwarg). Most of cases, kwarg == NULL and
mid+argc+flags only requires 64bits. So this patch packed
rb_call_info to VALUE (1 word) on such cases. If we can not
represent it in VALUE, then use imemo_callinfo which contains
conventional callinfo (rb_callinfo, renamed from rb_call_info).
iseq->body->ci_kw_size is removed because all of callinfo is VALUE
size (packed ci or a pointer to imemo_callinfo).
To access ci information, we need to use these functions:
vm_ci_mid(ci), _flag(ci), _argc(ci), _kwarg(ci).
struct rb_call_info_kw_arg is renamed to rb_callinfo_kwarg.
rb_funcallv_with_cc() and rb_method_basic_definition_p_with_cc()
is temporary removed because cd->ci should be marked.
This removes the warning that was added in
3802fb92ff, and switches the behavior
so that the eval does not use the binding's __FILE__ and __LINE__
implicitly.
Fixes [Bug #4352]
This removes the warnings added in 2.7, and changes the behavior
so that a final positional hash is not treated as keywords or
vice-versa.
To handle the arg_setup_block splat case correctly with keyword
arguments, we need to check if we are taking a keyword hash.
That case didn't have a test, but it affects real-world code,
so add a test for it.
This removes rb_empty_keyword_given_p() and related code, as
that is not needed in Ruby 3. The empty keyword case is the
same as the no keyword case in Ruby 3.
This changes rb_scan_args to implement keyword argument
separation for C functions when the : character is used.
For backwards compatibility, it returns a duped hash.
This is a bad idea for performance, but not duping the hash
breaks at least Enumerator::ArithmeticSequence#inspect.
Instead of having RB_PASS_CALLED_KEYWORDS be a number,
simplify the code by just making it be rb_keyword_given_p().