This CL forces the optimizer to preserve some memory stores
that would be redundant except that a stack scan due to garbage
collection or stack copying might look at them during a function call.
As such, it forces additional memory writes and therefore slows
down the execution of some programs, especially garbage-heavy
programs that are already limited by memory bandwidth.
The slowdown can be as much as 7% for end-to-end benchmarks.
These numbers are from running go1.test -test.benchtime=5s three times,
taking the best (lowest) ns/op for each benchmark. I am excluding
benchmarks with time/op < 10us to focus on macro effects.
All benchmarks are on amd64.
Comparing tip (a27f34c771cb) against this CL on an Intel Core i5 MacBook Pro:
benchmark old ns/op new ns/op delta
BenchmarkBinaryTree17 3876500413 3856337341 -0.52%
BenchmarkFannkuch11 2965104777 2991182127 +0.88%
BenchmarkGobDecode 8563026 8788340 +2.63%
BenchmarkGobEncode 5050608 5267394 +4.29%
BenchmarkGzip 431191816 434168065 +0.69%
BenchmarkGunzip 107873523 110563792 +2.49%
BenchmarkHTTPClientServer 85036 86131 +1.29%
BenchmarkJSONEncode 22143764 22501647 +1.62%
BenchmarkJSONDecode 79646916 85658808 +7.55%
BenchmarkMandelbrot200 4720421 4700108 -0.43%
BenchmarkGoParse 4651575 4712247 +1.30%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchMedium_1K 71986 73490 +2.09%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchHard_1K 111018 117495 +5.83%
BenchmarkRevcomp 648798723 659352759 +1.63%
BenchmarkTemplate 112673009 112819078 +0.13%
Comparing tip (a27f34c771cb) against this CL on an Intel Xeon E5520:
BenchmarkBinaryTree17 5461110720 5393104469 -1.25%
BenchmarkFannkuch11 4314677151 4327177615 +0.29%
BenchmarkGobDecode 11065853 11235272 +1.53%
BenchmarkGobEncode 6500065 6959837 +7.07%
BenchmarkGzip 647478596 671769097 +3.75%
BenchmarkGunzip 139348579 141096376 +1.25%
BenchmarkHTTPClientServer 69376 73610 +6.10%
BenchmarkJSONEncode 30172320 31796106 +5.38%
BenchmarkJSONDecode 113704905 114239137 +0.47%
BenchmarkMandelbrot200 6032730 6003077 -0.49%
BenchmarkGoParse 6775251 6405995 -5.45%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchMedium_1K 111832 113895 +1.84%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchHard_1K 161112 168420 +4.54%
BenchmarkRevcomp 876363406 892319935 +1.82%
BenchmarkTemplate 146273096 148998339 +1.86%
Just to get a sense of where we are compared to the previous release,
here are the same benchmarks comparing Go 1.2 to this CL.
Comparing Go 1.2 against this CL on an Intel Core i5 MacBook Pro:
BenchmarkBinaryTree17 4370077662 3856337341 -11.76%
BenchmarkFannkuch11 3347052657 2991182127 -10.63%
BenchmarkGobDecode 8791384 8788340 -0.03%
BenchmarkGobEncode 4968759 5267394 +6.01%
BenchmarkGzip 437815669 434168065 -0.83%
BenchmarkGunzip 94604099 110563792 +16.87%
BenchmarkHTTPClientServer 87798 86131 -1.90%
BenchmarkJSONEncode 22818243 22501647 -1.39%
BenchmarkJSONDecode 97182444 85658808 -11.86%
BenchmarkMandelbrot200 4733516 4700108 -0.71%
BenchmarkGoParse 5054384 4712247 -6.77%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchMedium_1K 67612 73490 +8.69%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchHard_1K 107321 117495 +9.48%
BenchmarkRevcomp 733270055 659352759 -10.08%
BenchmarkTemplate 109304977 112819078 +3.21%
Comparing Go 1.2 against this CL on an Intel Xeon E5520:
BenchmarkBinaryTree17 5986953594 5393104469 -9.92%
BenchmarkFannkuch11 4861139174 4327177615 -10.98%
BenchmarkGobDecode 11830997 11235272 -5.04%
BenchmarkGobEncode 6608722 6959837 +5.31%
BenchmarkGzip 661875826 671769097 +1.49%
BenchmarkGunzip 138630019 141096376 +1.78%
BenchmarkHTTPClientServer 71534 73610 +2.90%
BenchmarkJSONEncode 30393609 31796106 +4.61%
BenchmarkJSONDecode 139645860 114239137 -18.19%
BenchmarkMandelbrot200 5988660 6003077 +0.24%
BenchmarkGoParse 6974092 6405995 -8.15%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchMedium_1K 111331 113895 +2.30%
BenchmarkRegexpMatchHard_1K 165961 168420 +1.48%
BenchmarkRevcomp 995049292 892319935 -10.32%
BenchmarkTemplate 145623363 148998339 +2.32%
Fixes#8036.
LGTM=khr
R=golang-codereviews, josharian, khr
CC=golang-codereviews, iant, r
https://golang.org/cl/99660044
The rtype struct is meant to be a copy of reflect.rtype. The
zero field was added to reflect.rtype in 18495:6e50725ac753.
LGTM=rsc
R=khr, rsc
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/93660045
[Same as CL 102820043 except applied changes to 6g/gsubr.c
also to 5g/gsubr.c and 8g/gsubr.c. The problem I had last night
trying to do that was that 8g's copy of nodarg has different
(but equivalent) control flow and I was pasting the new code
into the wrong place.]
Description from CL 102820043:
The 'nodarg' function is used to obtain a Node*
representing a function argument or result.
It returned a brand new Node*, but that violates
the guarantee in most places in the compiler that
two Node*s refer to the same variable if and only if
they are the same Node* pointer. Reestablish that
invariant by making nodarg return a preexisting
named variable if present.
Having fixed that, avoid any copy during x=x in
componentgen, because the VARDEF we emit
before the copy marks the lhs x as dead incorrectly.
The change in walk.c avoids modifying the result
of nodarg. This was the only place in the compiler
that did so.
Fixes#8097.
LGTM=khr
R=golang-codereviews, khr
CC=golang-codereviews, iant, khr, r
https://golang.org/cl/103750043
Breaks 386 and arm builds.
The obvious reason is that this CL only edited 6g/gsubr.c
and failed to edit 5g/gsubr.c and 8g/gsubr.c.
However, the obvious CL applying the same edit to those
files (CL 101900043) causes mysterious build failures
in various of the standard package tests, usually involving
reflect. Something deep and subtle is broken but only on
the 32-bit systems.
Undo this CL for now.
««« original CL description
cmd/gc: fix x=x crash
The 'nodarg' function is used to obtain a Node*
representing a function argument or result.
It returned a brand new Node*, but that violates
the guarantee in most places in the compiler that
two Node*s refer to the same variable if and only if
they are the same Node* pointer. Reestablish that
invariant by making nodarg return a preexisting
named variable if present.
Having fixed that, avoid any copy during x=x in
componentgen, because the VARDEF we emit
before the copy marks the lhs x as dead incorrectly.
The change in walk.c avoids modifying the result
of nodarg. This was the only place in the compiler
that did so.
Fixes#8097.
LGTM=r, khr
R=golang-codereviews, r, khr
CC=golang-codereviews, iant
https://golang.org/cl/102820043
»»»
TBR=r
CC=golang-codereviews, khr
https://golang.org/cl/95660043
The 'nodarg' function is used to obtain a Node*
representing a function argument or result.
It returned a brand new Node*, but that violates
the guarantee in most places in the compiler that
two Node*s refer to the same variable if and only if
they are the same Node* pointer. Reestablish that
invariant by making nodarg return a preexisting
named variable if present.
Having fixed that, avoid any copy during x=x in
componentgen, because the VARDEF we emit
before the copy marks the lhs x as dead incorrectly.
The change in walk.c avoids modifying the result
of nodarg. This was the only place in the compiler
that did so.
Fixes#8097.
LGTM=r, khr
R=golang-codereviews, r, khr
CC=golang-codereviews, iant
https://golang.org/cl/102820043
Update #8112
Hide one-pass regexp API.
This means moving the code from regexp/syntax to regexp,
but it avoids being locked into the specific API chosen for
the implementation.
It also removes a slice field from the syntax.Inst, which
should avoid bloating the memory footprint of a non-one-pass
regexp unnecessarily.
LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r
CC=golang-codereviews, iant
https://golang.org/cl/98610046
For incomplete struct S, C.T and C.struct_S were interchangeable in Go 1.2
and earlier, because all incomplete types were interchangeable
(even C.struct_S1 and C.struct_S2).
CL 76450043, which fixed issue 7409, made different incomplete types
different from Go's point of view, so that they were no longer completely
interchangeable.
However, imprecision about C.T and C.struct_S - really the same
underlying C type - is the one behavior enabled by the bug that
is most likely to be depended on by existing cgo code.
Explicitly allow it, to keep that code working.
Fixes#7786.
LGTM=iant, r
R=golang-codereviews, iant, r
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/98580046
Map iteration order issue. Go 1.2 and earlier had stable results
for small maps.
Fixes#8115
LGTM=r, rsc
R=golang-codereviews, r
CC=dsymonds, golang-codereviews, iant, rsc
https://golang.org/cl/98580047
CL 51010045 fixed the first one of these:
cmd/gc: return canonical Node* from temp
For historical reasons, temp was returning a copy
of the created Node*, not the original Node*.
This meant that if analysis recorded information in the
returned node (for example, n->addrtaken = 1), the
analysis would not show up on the original Node*, the
one kept in fn->dcl and consulted during liveness
bitmap creation.
Correct this, and watch for it when setting addrtaken.
Fixes#7083.
R=khr, dave, minux.ma
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/51010045
CL 53200043 fixed the second:
cmd/gc: fix race build
Missed this case in CL 51010045.
TBR=khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/53200043
This CL fixes the third. There are only three nod(OXXX, ...)
calls in sinit.c, so maybe we're done. Embarassing that it
took three CLs to find all three.
Fixes#8028.
LGTM=khr
R=golang-codereviews, khr
CC=golang-codereviews, iant
https://golang.org/cl/100800046
In the first very rough draft of the reordering code
that was introduced in the Go 1.3 cycle, the pre-allocated
temporary for a ... argument was held in n->right.
It moved to n->alloc but the code avoiding n->right
was left behind in order.c. In copy(x, <-c), the receive
is in n->right and must be processed. Delete the special
case code, removing the bug.
Fixes#8039.
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/100820044
The code was assuming that pointer alignment is the
maximum alignment, but on NaCl uint64 alignment is
even more strict.
Brad checked in the test earlier today; this fixes the build.
Fixes#7863.
TBR=iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/98630046
The code cannot have worked before, because it was
trying to use the old value in a range check for the new
type, which might have a different representation
(hence the 'internal compiler error').
Fixes#8073.
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/98630045
Common mistake (at least for me) because hg etc. require the prefix
while the go command forbids it.
Before:
% go get http://code.google.com/p/go.text/unicode/norm
package http:/code.google.com/p/go.text/unicode/norm: unrecognized import path "http:/code.google.com/p/go.text/unicode/norm"
After:
% go get http://code.google.com/p/go.text/unicode/norm
package http:/code.google.com/p/go.text/unicode/norm: "http://" not allowed in import path
LGTM=ruiu, rsc
R=rsc, ruiu
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/97630046
This is a quick documentation change/clarification, as this
confused me before: in my own cgo-based projects, I currently have
identical #cgo directives in each relevant source file, and I notice
with go build -x that cgo is combining the directives, leading to
pkg-config invocations with the same package name (gtk+-3.0, in my
case) repeated several times, or on Mac OS X, LDFLAGS listing
-framework Foundation -framework AppKit multiple times. Since I am
about to add a CFLAGS as well, I checked the source to cmd/cgo and
go/build (where the work is actually done) to see if that still holds
true there. Hopefully other people who have made the same mistake I
have (I don't know if anyone has) can remove the excess declarations
now; this should make things slightly easier to manage as well.
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, gobot, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/91520046
Ignore symbols that aren't text, data, or bss since they cause
problems when dissassembling instructions with small immediate
values.
Before:
build.go:142 0x10ee 83ec50 SUBL $text/template/parse.autotmp_1293(SB), SP
After:
build.go:142 0x10ee 83ec50 SUBL $0x50, SP
Fixes#7947.
LGTM=rsc
R=rsc, 0intro
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/93520045
Passes the expanded test in CL 100660044,
which gives me some confidence that it
might be right.
(The old code failed by not considering all the
low bits.)
LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r, bradfitz
CC=golang-codereviews, iant, khr
https://golang.org/cl/99410051
Rewrite formatFloat to be much simpler and clearer and
avoid the tricky interaction with padding.
The issue refers to complex but the problem is just floating-point.
The new tests added were incorrectly formatted before this fix.
Fixes#8064.
LGTM=jscrockett01, rsc
R=rsc, jscrockett01
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/99420048
This idea was rejected in CL 5731059. We should fix the
runtime docs instead.
««« original CL description
cmd/dist: reflect local changes to tree in goversion
runtime.Version() requires a trailing "+" when
tree had local modifications at time of build.
Fixes#7701
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/84040045
»»»
LGTM=rsc, mra
R=iant, rsc, mra
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/100520043
Explain which files the go command looks at, and what they represent.
Fixes#6348.
LGTM=rsc
R=rsc, minux.ma
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/96480043
Add nacl.bash, the NaCl version of all.bash.
It's a separate script because it builds a variant of package syscall
with a large zip file embedded in it, containing all the input files
needed for tests.
Disable various tests new since the last round, mostly the ones using os/exec.
Fixes#7945.
LGTM=dave
R=golang-codereviews, remyoudompheng, dave, bradfitz
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/100590044
The USEFIELD instructions no longer make it to the linker,
so we have to do something else to pin the references
they were pinning. Emit a 0-length relocation of type R_USEFIELD.
Fixes#7486.
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant
CC=golang-codereviews, r
https://golang.org/cl/95530043
The move from 4kB to 8kB in Go 1.2 was to eliminate many stack split hot spots.
The move back to 4kB was predicated on copying stacks eliminating
the potential for hot spots.
Unfortunately, the fact that stacks do not copy 100% of the time means
that hot spots can still happen under the right conditions, and the slowdown
is worse now than it was in Go 1.2. There is a real program in issue 8030 that
sees about a 30x slowdown: it has a reflect call near the top of the stack
which inhibits any stack copying on that segment.
Go back to 8kB until stack copying can be used 100% of the time.
Fixes#8030.
LGTM=khr, dave, iant
R=iant, khr, r, bradfitz, dave
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/92540043
The float32 const conversion used to round to float64
and then use the hardware to round to float32.
Even though there was a range check before this
conversion, the double rounding introduced inaccuracy:
the round to float64 might round the value further away
from the float32 range, reaching a float64 value that
could not actually be rounded to float32. The hardware
appears to give us 0 in that case, but it is probably undefined.
Double rounding also meant that the wrong value might
be used for certain border cases.
Do the rounding the float32 ourselves, just as we already
did the rounding to float64. This makes the conversion
precise and also makes the conversion match the range check.
Finally, add some code to print very large (bigger than float64)
floating point constants in decimal floating point notation instead
of falling back to the precise but human-unreadable binary floating
point notation.
Fixes#8015.
LGTM=iant
R=golang-codereviews, iant
CC=golang-codereviews, r
https://golang.org/cl/100580044
Update #7980
This CL make the linker abort for the example program. For Go 1.4,
we need to find a general way to handle large memory model programs.
LGTM=dave, josharian, iant
R=iant, dave, josharian
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/91500046
The temporary-introducing pass was not recursing
into the argumnt of a receive operation.
Fixes#8011.
LGTM=r
R=golang-codereviews, r
CC=golang-codereviews, iant, khr
https://golang.org/cl/91540043
