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py: Compress first part of bytecode prelude.

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The start of the bytecode prelude contains 6 numbers telling the amount of
stack needed for the Python values and exceptions, and the signature of the
function.  Prior to this patch these numbers were all encoded one after the
other (2x variable unsigned integers, then 4x bytes), but using so many
bytes is unnecessary.

An entropy analysis of around 150,000 bytecode functions from the CPython
standard library showed that the optimal Shannon coding would need about
7.1 bits on average to encode these 6 numbers, compared to the existing 48
bits.

This patch attempts to get close to this optimal value by packing the 6
numbers into a single, varible-length unsigned integer via bit-wise
interleaving.  The interleaving scheme is chosen to minimise the average
number of bytes needed, and at the same time keep the scheme simple enough
so it can be implemented without too much overhead in code size or speed.
The scheme requires about 10.5 bits on average to store the 6 numbers.

As a result most functions which originally took 6 bytes to encode these 6
numbers now need only 1 byte (in 80% of cases).
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Damien George
2019-09-16 22:12:59 +10:00
parent 81d04a0200
commit b5ebfadbd6
14 changed files with 171 additions and 106 deletions
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@@ -573,18 +573,19 @@ STATIC void emit_native_start_pass(emit_t *emit, pass_kind_t pass, scope_t *scop
}
static inline void emit_native_write_code_info_byte(emit_t *emit, byte val) {
mp_asm_base_data(&emit->as->base, 1, val);
}
STATIC void emit_native_end_pass(emit_t *emit) {
emit_native_global_exc_exit(emit);
if (!emit->do_viper_types) {
emit->prelude_offset = mp_asm_base_get_code_pos(&emit->as->base);
mp_asm_base_data(&emit->as->base, 1, 0x80 | ((emit->n_state >> 7) & 0x7f));
mp_asm_base_data(&emit->as->base, 1, emit->n_state & 0x7f);
mp_asm_base_data(&emit->as->base, 1, 0); // n_exc_stack
mp_asm_base_data(&emit->as->base, 1, emit->scope->scope_flags);
mp_asm_base_data(&emit->as->base, 1, emit->scope->num_pos_args);
mp_asm_base_data(&emit->as->base, 1, emit->scope->num_kwonly_args);
mp_asm_base_data(&emit->as->base, 1, emit->scope->num_def_pos_args);
size_t n_state = emit->n_state;
size_t n_exc_stack = 0; // exc-stack not needed for native code
MP_BC_PRELUDE_SIG_ENCODE(n_state, n_exc_stack, emit->scope, emit_native_write_code_info_byte, emit);
// write code info
#if MICROPY_PERSISTENT_CODE