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Bug #9382

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[patch] add opt_aref_str and opt_aset_str

Added by tmm1 (Aman Karmani) about 10 years ago. Updated about 10 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Target version:
[ruby-core:59640]

Description

@charliesome, @normalperson (Eric Wong) and I have been working on a patch to add two new instructions:

https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9188#note-9

These optimize Hash#[] and Hash#[]=, when used with a string literal key.

Before:

0010 putstring "str"
0012 opt_aref <callinfo!mid:[], argc:1, ARGS_SKIP>

After:

0010 opt_aref_str <callinfo!mid:[], argc:1, ARGS_SKIP>, "str"

The opt_(aref|aset)_str instructions avoid str_duplicate, resulting in reduced allocation overhead. For example, this loop requires zero allocations after the patch:

hash={}; loop{ hash["key"] += 1 }

In our rails app, 2.5% of iseqs can benefit from these optimizations:

$ ruby -rconfig/environment -e' p ObjectSpace.each_object(RubyVM::InstructionSequence).count '
63314

$ ruby -rconfig/environment -e' p ObjectSpace.each_object(RubyVM::InstructionSequence).select{ |i| i.disasm.match(/ opt_(aref|aset)_str /) }.size '
1464

@headius (Charles Nutter) is also adding a similar optimization to jruby: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8998#note-15

I plan to commit the patch above, so if you have any feedback on the implementation please share.


Related issues 3 (0 open3 closed)

Related to Ruby master - Feature #8998: string keys for hash literals should use fstringsClosed10/08/2013Actions
Related to Ruby master - Misc #9188: r43870 make benchmark/bm_so_k_nucleotide.rb slowClosedtmm1 (Aman Karmani)12/01/2013Actions
Related to Ruby master - Bug #12855: Inconsistent keys identity in compare_by_identity Hash when using literalsClosedtmm1 (Aman Karmani)Actions
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