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2019-01-18Merge branch 'bjorn/compiler/misc'Björn Gustavsson
* bjorn/compiler/misc: beam_ssa_type: Simplify is_singleton_type/1 beam_ssa_opt: Run ssa_opt_tuple_size early beam_ssa_codegen: Remove forgotten and unreachable clause beam_ssa_opt: Run the type optimization pass twice beam_ssa_type: Eliminate redundant 'succeeded' instructions
2019-01-18Merge branch 'bjorn/compiler/fix-inlined-funs'Björn Gustavsson
* bjorn/compiler/fix-inlined-funs: sys_core_inline: Kill *all* fun annotations when inlining
2019-01-18Merge branch 'bjorn/compiler/beam_validator/ERL-832'Björn Gustavsson
* bjorn/compiler/beam_validator/ERL-832: Make the beam_validator smarter (again)
2019-01-18beam_ssa_type: Simplify is_singleton_type/1Björn Gustavsson
2019-01-18beam_ssa_opt: Run ssa_opt_tuple_size earlyBjörn Gustavsson
Running ssa_opt_tuple_size early will give more opportunities for optimizations.
2019-01-18beam_ssa_codegen: Remove forgotten and unreachable clauseBjörn Gustavsson
fd682dd3b1dc corrected label generation for 'or', but forgot to remove the old incorrect clause (that can no longer be reached).
2019-01-18beam_ssa_opt: Run the type optimization pass twiceBjörn Gustavsson
The code will be significantly improved by running the type optimization pass twice. The ssa_opt_misc pass can be eliminated because everything it does is also done by the type optimization pass.
2019-01-17Make the beam_validator smarter (again)Björn Gustavsson
Needed because of the optimizations in 48f20bd589fa69. https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-832
2019-01-17sys_core_inline: Kill *all* fun annotations when inliningBjörn Gustavsson
sys_core_inline didn't kill fun annotations in variables, which could lead to duplicated wrapper functions for funs. That was basically harmless because the duplicated functions were eventually discarded.
2019-01-17beam_ssa_type: Eliminate redundant 'succeeded' instructionsBjörn Gustavsson
The beam_ssa_type pass would leave redundant 'succeeded' instructions, and depend on the live optimization pass to remove them. Update beam_ssa_type to remove redundant 'succeeded' instructions. This will not improve the generated code, but will improve compilation times since it eliminates instructions and variables.
2019-01-16Move optimizations of bs_put* instruction to beam_ssa_optBjörn Gustavsson
Do the optimizations of bs_put* instructions in beam_ssa_opt and remove the beam_bs pass. This can lead to a slight improvement of compilation times.
2019-01-16Refactor string operandsBjörn Gustavsson
There are two instructions that take string operands: {bs_put_string,Fail,NumberOfBytes,{string,String}} {bs_match_string,Fail,Register,NumberOfBits,{string,String}} In the canonical BEAM code that is passed to beam_asm, string String is currently represented as a list. (The string in bs_match_string is a bitstring before the beam_z compiler pass.) That is wasteful, because there will be unnecessary conversions between lists and binaries. Change the representation of String to be a binary. Furthermore, bs_put_string is an optimization of a bs_put_binary instruction with a literal binary operand. Currently, the bs_put_string instruction is introduced in beam_bs. Delay the introduction of bs_put_string to the beam_z pass. That will simplify optimizations and allow us to do the optimization currently done in beam_bs in a SSA pass in a future commit.
2019-01-16Move coalescing of bs_skip to beam_ssa_optBjörn Gustavsson
The optimization can be applied in a few more places if done before ssa_opt_bsm_shortcut (for example, in unicode:cbv/2).
2019-01-16Merge pull request #2091 from bjorng/bjorn/compiler/beam_ssa_typeBjörn Gustavsson
Improve type optimizations
2019-01-14beam_type: Eliminate compiler crash when arithmetic expression failsBjörn Gustavsson
The compiler would crash when compiling code such as: (A / B) band 16#ff The type for the expression would be 'none', but beam_type:verified_type/1 did not handle 'none'. https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-829
2019-01-14Introduce subtraction of typesBjörn Gustavsson
Introduce subtraction of types to allow some redundant tests to be eliminated. Consider this function: foo(L) when is_list(L) -> case L of [_|_] -> non_empty; [] -> empty end. After entering the body of the function, L is known to be either a cons cell or nil (otherwise the is_list/1 guard would have failed). If the L is not a cons cell, it must be nil. Therefore, the test for nil in the second clause of the case can be eliminated. Here is the SSA code with some additonal comments for the function before the optimization: function t:foo(_0) { 0: @ssa_bool = bif:is_list _0 br @ssa_bool, label 4, label 3 4: %% _0 is now a list (cons or nil). @ssa_bool:8 = is_nonempty_list _0 br @ssa_bool:8, label 9, label 7 9: ret literal non_empty 7: %% _0 is not a cons (or we wouldn't be here). %% Subtracting cons from the previously known type list %% gives that _0 must be nil. @ssa_bool:10 = bif:'=:=' _0, literal [] br @ssa_bool:10, label 11, label 6 11: ret literal empty 6: _6 = put_tuple literal case_clause, _0 %% t.erl:5 @ssa_ret:12 = call remote (literal erlang):(literal error)/1, _6 ret @ssa_ret:12 3: _9 = put_list _0, literal [] %% t.erl:4 @ssa_ret:13 = call remote (literal erlang):(literal error)/2, literal function_clause, _9 ret @ssa_ret:13 } Type subtraction gives us that _0 must be nil in block 7, allowing us to remove the comparison of _0 with nil. The code for the function can be simplified to: function t:foo(_0) { 0: @ssa_bool = bif:is_list _0 br @ssa_bool, label 4, label 3 4: @ssa_bool:8 = is_nonempty_list _0 br @ssa_bool:8, label 9, label 11 9: ret literal non_empty 11: ret literal empty 3: _9 = put_list _0, literal [] %% t.erl:4 @ssa_ret:13 = call remote (literal erlang):(literal error)/2, literal function_clause, _9 ret @ssa_ret:13 }
2019-01-14Infer types from more BIFsBjörn Gustavsson
2019-01-11beam_ssa_codegen: Correct label generation for 'or'Björn Gustavsson
Code generation for 'or' with {z,0} destination could generate duplicate new labels. The bug was introduced in eb571f8951bd.
2019-01-11beam_ssa_pre_codegen: Don't use z registers for 'xor' and 'is_record'Björn Gustavsson
There is no easy way to convert xor or is_record/2 to test operations.
2019-01-11beam_ssa_pre_codegen: Correct short-lived optimizationBjörn Gustavsson
2019-01-11beam_ssa_type: Properly eliminate 'succeeded' instructionsBjörn Gustavsson
When an instruction has been eliminated, the 'succeeded' instruction must be eliminated.
2019-01-11erl_bif: Mark is_map/1 as safeBjörn Gustavsson
2019-01-11beam_validator: Infer types from '=:='Björn Gustavsson
As beam_ssa_type is about to get smarter, beam_validator must be smarter too.
2019-01-07Remove unsafe optimization for delaying creation of stackframeBjörn Gustavsson
b89044a800c4 introduced an optimization that tries to delay creation of stack frames. It turns out that this optimization is not always safe. (See the new test case for an example.) Since the code generator is completely rewritten in the `master` branch for the upcoming OTP 22 release, it does not make sense trying to mend this optimization. It is better to remove it. Out of a sample of about 1000 modules in OTP, about 50 of them are changed as a result of removing this optimization. The compiler in OTP 22 will do the same optimization in a cleaner, safer, and more effective way. https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-807
2018-12-06Merge branch 'maint'Björn Gustavsson
* maint: Fix unsafe optimization of stack trace building
2018-12-06Merge pull request #2043 from bjorng/bjorn/compiler/tuple_sizeBjörn Gustavsson
beam_ssa_pre_codegen: Fix an internal consistency failure
2018-12-05Fix unsafe optimization of stack trace buildingBjörn Gustavsson
The `sys_core_fold` pass of the compiler would optimize away the building of the stacktrace in code such as: try ... catch C:R:Stk -> erlang:raise(C, {R,Stk}, Stk) end That optimization is unsafe and would cause a crash in a later compiler pass.
2018-12-05beam_ssa_pre_codegen: Fix an internal consistency failureBjörn Gustavsson
The following function: is_two_tuple(Arg) -> case is_tuple(Arg) of false -> false; true -> tuple_size(Arg) == 2 end. would cause an internal consistency failure: Internal consistency check failed - please report this bug. Instruction: {bif,tuple_size,{f,0},[{x,0}],{z,0}} Error: {invalid_store,{z,0},{integer,[]}}:
2018-11-30beam_validator: Don't discard fragilityBjörn Gustavsson
Be more careful when updating types so that fragility is not lost.
2018-11-28Cover more code in beam_jumpBjörn Gustavsson
The previous optimizations caused some code in beam_jump to become uncovered. Add tests to cover more code. Also remove a clause in beam_jump:opt/3 that does not seem possible to cover anymore (this is safe, because the clause was an optimization).
2018-11-28beam_jump: Eliminate jumps to return instructionsBjörn Gustavsson
Eliminate a jump to a return sequence, replacing the jump with the return sequence. This optimization always save execution time and may also save code space.
2018-11-28beam_jump: Remove the unused #st.index fieldBjörn Gustavsson
181cfc4ef9d1 stopping used #st.index.
2018-11-28Cover some code in beam_peepBjörn Gustavsson
Some lines in beam_peep were no longer covered when the sharing optimization was added to beam_ssa_opt. Also remove some code from beam_peep that no longer seems possible to cover.
2018-11-28Share the code for semantically equivalent blocksBjörn Gustavsson
Share code for semantically equivalent blocks referred to to by `br` and `switch` instructions. A similar optimization is done in `beam_jump`, but doing it here as well is beneficial as it may enable other optimizations. Also, if there are many semantically equivalent clauses, this optimization can substanstially decrease compilation times.
2018-11-21Sort move instructions on the Y registerBjörn Gustavsson
Sort sequences of `move` instructions on the Y register. When moving from X registers to Y registers, having the instructions sorted on Y registers give the loader more opportunities to use `move_window{3,4,5}` instructions. For examples, the following five instructions: move_xy x(2) y(0) move_xy x(1) y(1) move_xy x(0) y(2) move_xy x(5) y(3) move_xy x(4) y(4) can be replaced with: move_window5_xxxxxy x(2) x(1) x(0) x(5) x(4) y(0) When the Y registers are not ordered so that `move_window5` can be used, the loader would typically combine the first three moves to a `move3_xyxyxy` instruction and the last two moves to a `move2_par_xyxy` instruction. When moving from Y registers to X registers, sorting on the Y registers could potentially be more cache-friendly. It could also be worthwhile investigating a new `move_window` instruction in the BEAM interpreter that could move values from contiguous Y registers to X registers. Note that `scripts/diffable` can generate diffable dissambly files for the loaded BEAM code: $ scripts/diffable --dis 0 $ scripts/diffable --dis 1 $ diff -u 0 1
2018-11-20Fix internal consistency failure for is_function/2Björn Gustavsson
There could be an internal consistency failure when using is_function/2, because an optimization did not take into account that is_function/2 can fail. https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-778
2018-11-19beam_ssa_pre_codegen: Improve reuse of Y registersBjörn Gustavsson
Enhance the copy_retval/1 optimization to allow Y registers to be reused in more circumstances. Reusing Y register can often reduce the size of the stack frame.
2018-11-19beam_ssa_codegen: Improve optimization of allocate instructionsBjörn Gustavsson
There could be `allocate_zero` instructions where `allocate` would suffice or superfluous `init` instructions because all possible initializations of Y registers were not taken into account. While at it, also add some more comments.
2018-11-18Add get_map_element to beam_ssa:no_side_effect/1Björn Gustavsson
The `get_map_element` instruction has no side effects, and should be removed if its value is not used.
2018-11-15beam_ssa_dead: Speed up optimization of switch instructionsBjörn Gustavsson
`beam_ssa_dead` can waste a lot of time trying to optimize an unoptimizable `switch` instruction. By being a little bit smarter when optimizing `switch` instructions, the runtime for the beam_ssa_dead pass was reduced approximately by half on my computer for this module: https://github.com/aggelgian/cuter/blob/master/src/cuter_binlib.erl Noticed-by: Kostis Sagonas
2018-11-15beam_ssa_pre_codegen: Eliminate a bottleneck in linear scanBjörn Gustavsson
The linear scan algorithm keeps unhandled intervals in two separate lists: one for intervals with reserved registers and one for intervals without reserved registers. When collecting the available free registers all unhandled intervals with reserved registers must be checked for overlap. Unhandled intervals that had a preferred register were put into the list of intervals with reserved registers, leading to a lot of unecessary overlap checking if there were many intervals with preferred registers. Changing the partition code to put intervals with preferred registers into the general list of unhandled intervals will reduce the compilation time if there are many preferred registers. On my computer, this change reduced the time of the linear scan pass from about 20 seconds down to about 0.5 seconds for this module: https://github.com/aggelgian/cuter/blob/master/src/cuter_binlib.erl Noticed-by: Kostis Sagonas
2018-11-15beam_ssa_type: Speed up type analysis for huge functionsBjörn Gustavsson
The type analysis pass (`beam_ssa_type`) keeps the type information for all variables that are in scope. For huge functions, the `join_types/2` function could get really slow when joining two maps with thousands of variables in each. Use a conservative approach to discard type information for variables only used once by a `br` or `switch` in the same block as the variable is defined in. This approach reduces the runtime for the `beam_ssa_type` pass from a few minutes down to few seconds for this module: https://github.com/aggelgian/cuter/blob/master/src/cuter_binlib.erl Rejected approach: Calculate liveness information for all variables and discard type information for any variable that would not be used again. That turned out to not work because some optimizations would invalidate the liveness (in particular, substitutions could lengthen the lifetime for a variable). Trying to update the liveness information when doing the optimizations would be tricky. Noticed-by: Kostis Sagonas
2018-11-06beam_trim: Add comments about how all this worksBjörn Gustavsson
Also rename a few functions in attempt to make it clearer.
2018-11-06beam_trim: Recognize more safe labelsBjörn Gustavsson
Recognize more safe labels to enable stack trimming in more circumstances.
2018-11-06beam_trim: Handle the new binary matching instructionsBjörn Gustavsson
2018-11-06beam_utils: Remove unused API functionsBjörn Gustavsson
Remove the now unused beam_utils:is_not_used/3 and beam_utils:is_killed/3 functions and friends. Starting out as simple functions a long time ago, those functions have grown and grown to support more optimizations. The number of bugs found and fixed in beam_utils has also grown over time.
2018-11-06beam_trim: Stop using beam_utils:is_not_used/3Björn Gustavsson
Eliminate the use of beam_utils:is_not_used/3 by implementing a simple is_not_used() function in beam_trim itself. The new version actually makes trimming possible in more circumstances, because beam_utils:is_not_used/3 was too conservative for the purpose of stack trimming (it was previously used for optimizations where it was necessary to be more conservative). Alternatives considered: I tried to implement stack trimming in beam_ssa_codegen but it turned out to be a total mess. Not surprisingly, it turns out that an optimization that renumbers Y registers is hard to do on an intermediate representation that still use variables instead of BEAM registers.
2018-11-06beam_jump: Stop using beam_utils:is_killed/3Björn Gustavsson
Prior to this commit, the optimizations using beam_utils:is_killed/3 were only executed a few times in the entire compiler test suite.
2018-11-06beam_trim, beam_jump: Print Name/Arity if there is a crashBjörn Gustavsson
This will help investigation of compiler bugs.
2018-11-06beam_trim: Use maps/cerl_sets instead of gb_trees/gb_setsBjörn Gustavsson