630445 - JM: shrink JITScript by optimizing the representation of variable-length sections

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Nicholas Nethercote [:njn] (On Long Service Leave)]

Attachment: patch (against TM 61287:a6d56af51d69)

JITScript has several variable-length sections at its end.  Currently it
holds a pointer to every section and the length of every section.  But only
one or the other is necessary;  this patch removes all the pointers.

This reduces sizeof(JITScript) nicely:

- 32-bits: 120 bytes -> 84 bytes
- 64-bits: 200 bytes -> 128 bytes

Reusing the calculation from bug 619849 comment 0: on a 20-tab cad-comics browser run this reduces peak memory use by ~800 KB on 64-bit platforms and ~400 KB on 32-bit platforms.

It also reduces the cost of adding new sections, which may happen with PICs
(see the last sentence of bug 629601 comment 2).

The patch:
- Changes all the section pointer fields (.nmap, .pics, etc) to methods.

- Removes 'idReg' from PICGenInfo;  it's a dead field.

- Reorders the section lengths in JITScript to match the order of the
  sections as written by finishThisUp().

- Simplifies the writing of sections in finishThisUp().  Most of the
  sections had an "is this zero length?" test that wasn't necessary and just
  increased indentation, so I removed it.
 
The patch is reasonably big but most of the changes are mechanical.  I confirmed with Cachegrind that instruction counts were only negligibly affected by the new section-finding methods, each of which requires multiple adds and multiplies.

Comment 1

[Nicholas Nethercote [:njn] (On Long Service Leave)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/tracemonkey/rev/a1a8cd4accba

Comment 2

[Chris Leary [:cdleary] (not checking bugmail)]

cdleary-bot mozilla-central merge info:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/a1a8cd4accba