We want to copy the aot data for both the 32-bit and the 64-bit versions of an
assembly even if the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the assembly are identical.
https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=54499
Deleting the directory when the test completes just makes it harder to copy-
paste the failing command.
Any directories created by Cache.CreateTemporaryDirectory will automatically
be deleted at the next test run, so this won't use up disk space.
Change how the registrar calls mtouch a bit, so that we don't use API that
throws an exception with the entire output in the exception message.
The problem is that if the process has a lot of output, XS slows down to a
crawl when showing the exception message in the test result pad.
Instead print the output to the terminal.
Change how the registrar calls mtouch a bit, so that we don't use API that
throws an exception with the entire output in the exception message.
The problem is that if the process has a lot of output, XS slows down to a
crawl when showing the exception message in the test result pad.
Instead print the output to the terminal.
Allow creating temporary apps/extensions multiple times without re-creating temporary directories.
This makes it possible for tests to call CreateTemporaryApp|Extension multiple
times with different code, and have only the actual managed assembly change
between each time (which is useful for tests that verifies that cached builds
are used properly).
Warn if mtouch loads an assembly from a different location than requested
(which might be because there are multiple assemblies with the same name).
Also rework the MT0023 check a bit by explicitly loading the root assembly
first, and then detecting if any loaded assemblies matches the root assembly.
This results in code that's a bit more obvious, and it also works correctly
with extensions (previously the entire MT0023 check was skipped for
extensions).
This makes dylibs automatically have the correct dylib id, which means no
fixups are required.
For instance: we'd build libpinvokes.armv7.dylib from libpinvokes.armv7.m,
which by default ends up with a dylib id of "libpinvokes.armv7.dylib". With
this fix no change is required, since we now build armv7/libpinvokes.dylib
from armv7/libpinvokes.m.
Make the architecture a suffix instead of infix for aotdata filenames so that
it's easier to compute the filename from the assembly name without passing
printf-style format strings around.
Create a custom AssemblyCollection class that contains a dictionary with
assembly identity (name) -> Assembly mapping.
This also means that we can detect if we end up loading multiple assemblies
with the same identity, and show an error in that case (even if that case
should never happen since we cache assemblies based on the identity, it's nice
to have code that ensures it).
Sometimes, when the stars align, fastsim can build an app in less than a
second.
Coupled with the fact that HFS+'s filestamp resolution is 1 second, we can't
assert that filestamps change without making sure enough time passes by.
So sleep for a second.
https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47696
We disabled fastdev for tvOS/watchOS projects with binding projects in
bac02538, and that broke the FastDev_LinkWithTest:
Errors and Failures:
1) Test Failure : Xamarin.MTouch.FastDev_LinkWithTest(TVOS)
Binding symbol not in executable
Expected: no item String ending with " T _theUltimateAnswer"
But was: < ... >
So adjust the test to match the new behavior.
Use @rpath instead of @executable_path in dylibs, since it allows us to be
more flexible when placing dylibs in the app.
In particular with this change it's trivial to put libmonosgen-2.0.dylib in
the container app, and reference it from extensions.
HFS timestamp resolution is 1 second, which means that we can't distinguish
files modified again within 1 second. This means that this test will fail more
often the faster we make mtouch, so add a forced sleep to make sure we don't
do things faster than the file system can keep track of.
Performance tests
-----------------
This is for a new watchOS extension project, built for release.
* The default (currently -O2) optimizations: 41s ( baseline ) 30.027.060 bytes ( baseline )
* All optimizations disabled (`--llvm-opt=all=`): 17s (-24s = -59%) 32.978.312 bytes (+2.951.252 = +10%)
* Optimized for size (`--llvm-opt=all=-Os`): 36s ( -5s = -12%) 28.617.408 bytes (-1.409.652 = -5%)
* Optimized for more size (`--llvm-opt=all=-Oz`): 35s ( -6s = -15%) 28.601.016 bytes (-1.426.044 = -5%)
* Optimized slightly (`--llvm-opt=all=-O1`): 35s ( -6s = -15%) 28.666.556 bytes (-1.360.504 = -5%)
* Optimized a lot (`--llvm-opt=all=-O3`): 41s ( 0s = 0%) 30.403.996 bytes (+ 376.936 = +1%)
Conclusions
-----------
* The fastest build by far (less than twice as fast) is if optimizations are
disabled, but this adds a 10% size penalty (~3 MB in this test case),
compared to the baseline, and 15% size penalty (4.3 MB) compared to -Oz.
* -Oz seems to have the best overall results: at least as fast as any other
optimized build, and the smallest app as well.
Caveats
-------
Some optimizations might not work the AOT compiled code. The resulting
binaries have not been tested.
Event sequence:
* mtouch is executed with the linker disabled.
* The linker pipeline copies all input assemblies (since the linker is
disabled the assemblies don't change) into the PreBuild directory. This will
keep the original timestamps of the input assemblies.
* mtouch is executed again, when none of the input assemblies changed.
* The linker pipeline will re-execute, because it will see that at least one
of the input assemblies (at least the .exe) is newer than at least one of
the assemblies in the PreBuild directory (usually a framework assembly,
because those have the original timestamp from their install location).
Fix:
Touch all the assemblies in the PreBuild directory after the linker pipeline
executes the first time. This way the second time mtouch is executed, it will
find that all assemblies in the PreBuild directory have timestamps later than
all the input assemblies, so it will load the cached linked assemblies,
instead of re-executing the linker pipeline.
TL&DR: This is *how* it should be done and tested, it's not complete
(single, simple case) nor the most interesting case ;-)
The trick is to make sure each case is covered by tests so a mono
_bump_ won't give us a BCL that does not conform to what the linker
expect.
What's the impact ?
1. There is the expected reduction of metadata in mscorlib. Since both
methods don't call other API there's no indirect effect (removal).
--- before 2017-01-15 11:12:44.000000000 -0500
+++ after 2017-01-15 11:12:56.000000000 -0500
@@ -13166,9 +13166,6 @@
System.Void System.Security.SecurityException::.ctor(System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationInfo,System.Runtime.Serialization.StreamingContext)
System.Void System.Security.SecurityException::.ctor(System.String)
System.Void System.Security.SecurityException::GetObjectData(System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationInfo,System.Runtime.Serialization.StreamingContext)
-System.Boolean System.Security.SecurityManager::CheckElevatedPermissions()
-System.Security.SecurityManager
-System.Void System.Security.SecurityManager::EnsureElevatedPermissions()
System.Security.SecurityRulesAttribute
System.Security.SecurityRuleSet System.Security.SecurityRulesAttribute::m_ruleSet
System.Void System.Security.SecurityRulesAttribute::.ctor(System.Security.SecurityRuleSet)
2. There is no visible size change (even with #1) in mscorlib.dll due to
padding (compiler /filealign)
mscorlib.dll 793,600 793,600 0 0.00 %
3. there's a *very* small reduction of mscorlib.*.aotdata size
mscorlib.armv7.aotdata 717,264 717,216 -48 -0.01 %
mscorlib.arm64.aotdata 712,840 712,704 -136 -0.02 %
AOT data *.aotdata 6,460,064 6,459,880 -184 0.00 %
4. there's no change in executable size - normal as the AOT compiler has
_likely_ already doing the same optimization (before this commit)
Executable 29,270,272 29,270,272 0 0.00 %
Full comparison: https://gist.github.com/spouliot/0464c8fa3a92b6486dfd90595d9eb718
Rolf Bjarne Kvinge
Marek Safar
Sebastien Pouliot