Formerly, `__send__(*args)` modified `args` with `Array#shift`.
This bug affects optcarrot.
This changeset avoids the array destruction by using
`args = args[1, len-1]`.
When removing elements from an array, it is possible to avoid creating
an empty array.
Before this patch:
```c
mrb_ary_splice(mrb, ary, head, len, mrb_ary_new(mrb));
```
After this patch:
```c
mrb_ary_splice(mrb, ary, head, len, mrb_undef_value());
```
Previously, `mrb_int` was used as the type that represents the buffer size
on memory, but the sizes of `RString` and `RArray` exceed 6 words when
`MRB_INT64` is enabled on 32-bit CPU.
I don't think it is necessary to be able to represent the buffer size on
memory that exceeds the virtual address space. Therefore, for this purpose,
introduce `mrb_ssize` which doesn't exceed the sizes of `mrb_int` and
pointer.
I think all `mrb_int` used for this purpose should be changed to
`mrb_ssize`, but currently only the members of the structures (`RString`,
`mrb_shared_string`, `RArray` and `mrb_shared_array`) are changed.
Functions to add prototypes to headers:
* mrb_ary_splice()
* mrb_notimplement()
* mrb_vformat()
* mrb_cstr_to_dbl()
* mrb_cstr_to_inum()
Functions to be made `static` (`MRB_API` was not needed):
* mrb_mod_module_function()
* mrb_obj_hash()
* mrb_str_len_to_inum()
Functions to remove `MRB_API` from definitions (referenced from within `libmruby`):
* mrb_mod_cv_defined()
* mrb_mod_cv_get()
* mrb_f_send()
It reduces the memory consumption and sometimes improve the
performance as well. For example, the consumed memory size
of `bench/bm_ao_render.rb` is reduced from 1.2GB to 1GB, and
its total execution time become 18.795 sec from 22.229 sec.
if you see compiler errors due to this commit, you'd better to use array-modifying
functions, e.g. mrb_ary_set() or mrb_ary_push(), otherwise you might see nasty
GC bugs in the future. if you are sure what you are doing, replace `RARRAY_PTR(ary)`
by `mrb_ary_ptr(ary)->ptr`. but be warned.
src/array.c:
- make various functions without declaration in the mruby headers static
- removed all uncessary int casts and two useless comments
mrb_ary_new_from_values: move to similar functions
mrb_check_array_type: fix indentation
include/mruby/array.h:
mrb_shared_array: padding (default "mrbconf.h" on an usual 64-bit system)
sizeof(mrb_int)==sizeof(int)==4 && sizeof(mrb_value*)==8
both:
mrb_ary_aget: remove declaration in header and make static
nobody uses it which is not surprising since it has 1 req arg!
mrb_assoc_new: small optimization and move to similar functions
mrb_ary_len: re-implement as static inline function (it is used by mrbgems)
programmers should directly use RARRAY_LEN instead
Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto