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authorQuentin Carbonneaux <quentin@c9x.me>2017-05-16 11:47:46 -0400
committerQuentin Carbonneaux <quentin@c9x.me>2017-05-16 11:47:46 -0400
commit2d02070af019e9896ecf2a63bedc098092fd395d (patch)
tree271a290f21b812b060abcca5744d97c7818aac7d /tools
parent436d0fc07e4551dd4265cfed0b0bc459c71ed8ce (diff)
downloadroux-2d02070af019e9896ecf2a63bedc098092fd395d.tar.gz
new hinting in the register allocator
The previous heuristics were ad hoc and it was hard to understand why they worked at all. This patch can be summarized in three points: 1. When a register is freed (an instruction assigns it), we try to find if a temporary would like to be in it, and if we find one, we move it in the newly freed register. I call this an "eager move". 2. Temporaries now remember in what register they were last allocated; this information is stored in the field Tmp.visit, and prevails on the field Tmp.hint when it is set. (This makes having the same hint for interfering temporaries not so disastrous.) 3. Blocks are now allocated in "onion" order, from the innermost loop to the outermost. This is the change I am the least sure about; it should be evaluated thorougly.
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