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* vm: function table for faster calls.Kaz Kylheku2018-03-181-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The vm now supports gcall and gapply opcodes which index numerically (using an immediate integer field in the instruction word) into a table of pre-resolved global function bindings. * share/txr/stdlib/asm.tl (op-gcall, op-gapply): New opcodes. (disassemble-c-d): Take the function vector as an argument and dump it too. (usr:disassemble): Extract function vector from VM description and pass it to disassemble-c-d. * share/txr/stdlib/compiler.tl (usr:compile-toplevel): Pass empty function symbol vector to vm-make-desc; it's now a required argument. * vm.c (struct vm_desc): New members funvec and ftab. (struct vm_ftent): New struct type. (vm_make_desc): New argument, funvec. Store funvec in the descriptor. Allocate a table of vm_ftent structures equal in number of elements to the function table, and populate it with resolved bindings. (vm_desc_funvec, vm_desc_destroy): New static functions. (vm_desc_mark): Mark the captured bindings in vd->ftab. (vm_gcall, vm_gapply): New static functions. (vm_execute): Handle GCALL and GAPPLY opcodes. (vm_desc_ops): Wire vm_desc_destroy in place of cobj_destroy_free_op. (vm_init): Add argument to vm-make-desc intrinsic. Register vm-desc-funvec intrinsic. * vm.h (vm_make_desc): Declaration updated. * vmop.h: Regenerated
* New: virtual machine with assembler.Kaz Kylheku2018-03-101-0/+31
This commit is the start of compiler work to make TXR Lisp execute faster. In six days of part time work, we now have a register-style virtual machine with 32 instructions, handling exceptions, unwind-protect, lexical closures, and global environment access/mutation. We have a complete assembler and disassembler for this machine. The assembler supports labels with forward referencing with backpatching, and features pseudo-ops: for instance the (mov ...) pseudo-instruction chooses one of three kinds of specific move instruction based on the operands. * Makelfile (OBJS): Add vm.o. * eval.c (lookup_sym_lisp1): Static function becomes external; the virtual machine needs to use this to support that style of lookup. * genvmop.txr: New file. This is the generator for the "vmop.h" header. * lib.c (func_vm): New function. (generic_funcall): Handle the FVM function type via new vm_execute_closure function. In the variadic case, we want to avoid the argument copying which we do for the sake of C functions that get their fixed arguments directly, and then just the trailing arguments. Thus the code is restructured a bit in order to switch twice on the function type. (init): Call vm_init. * lib.h (functype_t): New enum member FVM. (struct func): New member in the .f union: vm_desc. (func_vm): Declared. * lisplib.c (set_dlt_entries_impl): New static function, formed from set_dlt_entries. (set_dlt_entries): Reduced to wrapper for set_dlt_entries_impl, passing in the user package. (set_dlt_entries_sys): New static function: like set_dlt_entries but targetting the sys package. (asm_instantiate, asm_set_entries): New static functions. (lisplib_init): Auto-load the sys:assembler class. * share/txr/stdlib/asm.tl: New file. * vm.c, vm.h, vmop.h: New files.