The purpose is to remove the `mid` field from the `mrb_cache_entry` structure.
The resulting RAM requirement for the method cache is reduced from 5 words per entry to 4 words per entry for 32-bit CPUs.
The relevant changes are as follows:
- Removed `MRB_USE_METHOD_T_STRUCT`.
The `mrb_method_t` type is now always defined as a structure.
- Include method IDs in `mrb_method_t`
Change the `flags` member to `uint32_t`.
The bitstring structure should be the same as the keys of the `mt` table in `class.c`.
I believe the impact on API compatibility with previous versions is minimal.
The correct technique now is "Token Threading".
However, the new name was chosen because it was felt that if a different technique was added in the future, there would be no need to replace it.
* use predefined `mrb_ro_data_p()` for user-mode Linux and macOS
* define `MRB_LINK_TIME_RO_DATA_P` if predefined one is used
* configure macro `MRB_USE_LINK_TIME_RO_DATA_P` is no longer used
* contributions for new platforms are welcome
Embedding reduce memory consumption, sacrificing precision. It clips least
significant 2 bits from `mrb_float`, so if you need to keep float precision,
define `MRB_USE_FLOAT_FULL_PRECISION`.
`MRB_WORD_BOXING` and `MRB_INT64`:
`mrb_float` (`double`) is embedded in `mrb_value` clipped last 2 bits.
`MRB_WORD_BOXING` and `MRB_INT64` and `MRB_USE_FLOAT_FULL_PRECISION`:
`mrb_float` is allocated in the heaps wrapped by `struct RFloat`.
`MRB_WORD_BOXING` and `MRB_INT32` and `MRB_USE_FLOAT32`:
`mrb_float` (`float`) is embedded in `mrb_value` clipped last 2 bits.
In addition, to reserve bit space in the `mrb_value`, maximum inline
symbol length become 4 (instead of 5) in the configuration.
`MRB_WORD_BOXING` and `MRB_INT32`:
Assume `MRB_USE_FLOAT_FULL_PRECISION` and allocate Float values in heap.
- move `TRUE/FALSE` definition from `mrbconf.h` (not configurable)
- use C/C++ definition of boolean type for `mrb_bool`
The fix is originally written by @take-cheeze.
The GitHub Super Linter is a more robust and better supported
tool than the current GitHub Actions we are using.
Running these checks:
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Added the GitHub Super Linter badge to the README.
Also updated the pre-commit framework and added
more documentation on pre-commit.
Added one more pre-commit check: check-executables-have-shebangs
Added one extra check for merge conflicts to our
GitHub Actions.
EditorConfig and Markdown linting.
Minor grammar and spelling fixes.
Update linter.yml
- `MRB_WITHOUT_FLOAT` => `MRB_NO_FLOAT`
- `MRB_USE_FLOAT` => `MRB_USE_FLOAT32`
The former is to use `USE_XXX` naming convention. The latter is to make
sure `float` is 32bit float and not floating point number in general.
Introduced `MRB_NO_METHOD_CACHE` which is inverse of `MRB_METHOD_CACHE`
that should be enabled intestinally. In addition, the default cache is
made bigger (128 -> 256).
In lld linked programs, .rodata comes before .text, thus mrb_ro_data_p
will return false for strings in .rodata. Change the lower bound from
_etext to __ehdr_start to catch these cases. This works for ld.bfd, gold
and lld, and it does not have false positives even if .init_array does
not exist.
Remove the branch that uses _edata: strings in .data can be modified so
this is semantically incorrect. Delete the __APPLE__ branch (its
manpages say get_etext() and get_edata() are strongly discouraged).
.init_array has been adopted by most ELF platforms to supersede .ctors.
Neither _etext nor _edata is used, so rename MRB_USE_ETEXT_EDATA to
MRB_USE_EHDR_START.
`MRB_METHOD_TABLE_INLINE` was fragile. It requires `-falign-functions=n`.
On platform that uses higher bits of function pointers, you can use new
`MRB_METHOD_T_STRUCT` configuration macro.
Not only mruby, it is one of the difficult things to adjust the performance vs. memory efficiency of the software.
If the approximate target device is divided and the adjustment value for it is prepared by default, it is a good indicator to do fine adjustment.
This PR divides into four profiles.
***Caution: There is no basis for the definitions in the patch.***
- `MRB_CONSTRAINED_BASELINE_PROFILE` - for microprocessors. Reduce memory consumption.
- `MRB_BASELINE_PROFILE` - Default value of mruby.
- `MRB_MAIN_PROFILE` - For desktop computers. Assume that a huge amount of RAM, 10 MiB or more, is on board.
- `MRB_HIGH_PROFILE` - for servers. Assume that mruby VM has a long life.
As you can see the profile name has been ~~stolen~~ imitated from H.264.
It was default on Linux. Abandoned for 2 reasons:
* some cross-platform compiler defines `__linux__` even on bare metal
environment (RTL8196 (MIPS big endian soc) for example).
* some compilers do not align functions pointers so that we need to
specify `-falign-functions=n` (where n>1). It's not suitable for
default configuration.
By our measurement, `mrbtest` consumes 400KB less memory. So if your
target machine is memory tight, add the following command-line options
to `GCC` (unfortunately `clang` does not support `-falign-functions`).
`-falign-functions=2 -DMRB_METHOD_TABLE_INLINE`
Now the method tables (in classes/modules and caches) keeps C function
pointers without wrapping in `struct RProc` objects. For the sake of
portability, `mrb_method_t` is represented by the struct and union, but
if the most significant bit of the pointer is not used by the platform,
`mrb_method_t` should be packed in `uintptr_t` to reduce memory usage.
`MRB_METHOD_TABLE_INLINE` is turned on by default for linux.
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