* [ruby-core:102418] [Ruby master Feature#17613] Eliminate useless catch tables and nops from lambdas
@ 2021-02-08 19:37 tenderlove
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Issue #17613 has been reported by tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson).
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Feature #17613: Eliminate useless catch tables and nops from lambdas
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17613
* Author: tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
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This patch frees catch tables on iseqs that don't use the catch tables. It also eliminates `nop` instructions from lambdas that don't need them.
Before this patch, lambdas have a "prelude nop" that is used for catch table entries:
```
$ ruby --dump=insn -e '1.times { |x| puts x }'
== disasm: #<ISeq:<main>@-e:1 (1,0)-(1,22)> (catch: FALSE)
== catch table
| catch type: break st: 0000 ed: 0004 sp: 0000 cont: 0004
| == disasm: #<ISeq:block in <main>@-e:1 (1,8)-(1,22)> (catch: FALSE)
| == catch table
| | catch type: redo st: 0001 ed: 0006 sp: 0000 cont: 0001
| | catch type: next st: 0001 ed: 0006 sp: 0000 cont: 0006
| |------------------------------------------------------------------------
| local table (size: 1, argc: 1 [opts: 0, rest: -1, post: 0, block: -1, kw: -1@-1, kwrest: -1])
| [ 1] x@0<Arg>
| 0000 nop ( 1)[Bc]
| 0001 putself [Li]
| 0002 getlocal_WC_0 x@0
| 0004 opt_send_without_block <calldata!mid:puts, argc:1, FCALL|ARGS_SIMPLE>
| 0006 leave [Br]
|------------------------------------------------------------------------
0000 putobject_INT2FIX_1_ ( 1)[Li]
0001 send <calldata!mid:times, argc:0>, block in <main>
0004 leave
```
But since this particular lambda doesn't use the catch tables, there is no reason to keep the catch table or the `nop` instruction. This patch eliminates the `nop` instructions as well as the unused catch tables:
```
> ruby --dump=insn -e '1.times { |x| puts x }'
== disasm: #<ISeq:<main>@-e:1 (1,0)-(1,22)> (catch: FALSE)
0000 putobject_INT2FIX_1_ ( 1)[Li]
0001 send <calldata!mid:times, argc:0>, block in <main>
0004 leave
== disasm: #<ISeq:block in <main>@-e:1 (1,8)-(1,22)> (catch: FALSE)
local table (size: 1, argc: 1 [opts: 0, rest: -1, post: 0, block: -1, kw: -1@-1, kwrest: -1])
[ 1] x@0<Arg>
0000 putself ( 1)[LiBc]
0001 getlocal_WC_0 x@0
0003 opt_send_without_block <calldata!mid:puts, argc:1, FCALL|ARGS_SIMPLE>
0005 leave
```
It's not huge, but this frees about 600kb of catch tables on RailsBench. Here is a histogram of the catch tables and sizes freed for RailsBench:
![Freed Catch Tables](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3124/107269241-2d723080-69fe-11eb-9bf7-64f102251df7.png)
The X axis is the catch table size, so the actually malloc'd size for 2 would be approximately `2 * sizeof(struct iseq_catch_table_entry)`. So if we have 5 tables of size 2, that would be about `5 * 2 * sizeof(struct iseq_catch_table_entry)`.
The size of iseq_catch_table_entry is 32:
```
(lldb) p sizeof(struct iseq_catch_table_entry)
(unsigned long) $0 = 32
```
The total catch tables freed in RailsBench is 18275, so this frees about `18275 * 32` bytes, or about 584kb:
```
> sum(freed_table_sizes$V1)
[1] 18275
> sum(freed_table_sizes$V1) * 32
[1] 584800
```
Instruction Sequence size is also reduced due to `nop` elimination, but I didn't measure it.
Finally, this patch reduces `nop` calls on RailsBench from 6868813 ( 2.1%) to 2467772 ( 0.8%).
`nop` instructions on the `master` branch (`265c002239`):
```
[RUBY_INSNS_COUNTER] nop 6868813 ( 2.1%)
```
`nop` instructions with this patch applied:
```
[RUBY_INSNS_COUNTER] nop 2467772 ( 0.8%)
```
Pull request is [here](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/4125)
---Files--------------------------------
0001-Eliminate-useless-catch-tables-and-nops-from-lambdas.patch (4.02 KB)
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