1324561 - Compile CacheIR to MIR

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1628227

(Core :: JavaScript Engine: JIT, defect, P3)

Description

[Jan de Mooij [:jandem]]

In IonBuilder, when we see a Baseline IC has a single stub (and no had-unoptimizable flag), we can take its ICStub + CacheIR code and inline it by compiling it to MIR instructions.

Many CacheIR ops correspond to a single MIR instruction. The nice thing is that we will be in IonBuilder, so we can use TI to improve things over what the ICs do, for instance it will be easy to eliminate GuardIsObject, GuardGroup, GuardProto etc in many cases (and then this would work for all ICs that use these ops).

This has some great benefits: when we want to optimize a particular case, we emit CacheIR for it, implement the ops in the IC + MIR backends (only if we need a new op), and then we have this optimization everywhere: Baseline ICs, Ion ICs, Ion inline paths with TI optimizations.

Once this works, we should be able to remove a bunch of code from IonBuilder/BaselineInspector. Maybe the code for getters/setters (we do some IR pattern matching for that atm) and maybe even some of the DOM optimizations.

I'm pretty excited about this, but converting the existing Baseline and Ion IC stubs is higher priority for me right now. Just filing this now in case someone else wants to work on it in the meantime.

Comment 1

[Mayank Bansal]

dupe of bug 1613592 ?