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2021-09-16all: Remove MICROPY_OPT_CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE.Jim Mussared
This commit removes all parts of code associated with the existing MICROPY_OPT_CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE optimisation option, including the -mcache-lookup-bc option to mpy-cross. This feature originally provided a significant performance boost for Unix, but wasn't able to be enabled for MCU targets (due to frozen bytecode), and added significant extra complexity to generating and distributing .mpy files. The equivalent performance gain is now provided by the combination of MICROPY_OPT_LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and MICROPY_OPT_MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE (which has been enabled on the unix port in the previous commit). It's hard to provide precise performance numbers, but tests have been run on a wide variety of architectures (x86-64, ARM Cortex, Aarch64, RISC-V, xtensa) and they all generally agree on the qualitative improvements seen by the combination of MICROPY_OPT_LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and MICROPY_OPT_MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE. For example, on a "quiet" Linux x64 environment (i3-5010U @ 2.10GHz) the change from CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE, to LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH combined with MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE is: diff of scores (higher is better) N=2000 M=2000 bccache -> attrmapcache diff diff% (error%) bm_chaos.py 13742.56 -> 13905.67 : +163.11 = +1.187% (+/-3.75%) bm_fannkuch.py 60.13 -> 61.34 : +1.21 = +2.012% (+/-2.11%) bm_fft.py 113083.20 -> 114793.68 : +1710.48 = +1.513% (+/-1.57%) bm_float.py 256552.80 -> 243908.29 : -12644.51 = -4.929% (+/-1.90%) bm_hexiom.py 521.93 -> 625.41 : +103.48 = +19.826% (+/-0.40%) bm_nqueens.py 197544.25 -> 217713.12 : +20168.87 = +10.210% (+/-3.01%) bm_pidigits.py 8072.98 -> 8198.75 : +125.77 = +1.558% (+/-3.22%) misc_aes.py 17283.45 -> 16480.52 : -802.93 = -4.646% (+/-0.82%) misc_mandel.py 99083.99 -> 128939.84 : +29855.85 = +30.132% (+/-5.88%) misc_pystone.py 83860.10 -> 82592.56 : -1267.54 = -1.511% (+/-2.27%) misc_raytrace.py 21490.40 -> 22227.23 : +736.83 = +3.429% (+/-1.88%) This shows that the new optimisations are at least as good as the existing inline-bytecode-caching, and are sometimes much better (because the new ones apply caching to a wider variety of map lookups). The new optimisations can also benefit code generated by the native emitter, because they apply to the runtime rather than the generated code. The improvement for the native emitter when LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE are enabled is (same Linux environment as above): diff of scores (higher is better) N=2000 M=2000 native -> nat-attrmapcache diff diff% (error%) bm_chaos.py 14130.62 -> 15464.68 : +1334.06 = +9.441% (+/-7.11%) bm_fannkuch.py 74.96 -> 76.16 : +1.20 = +1.601% (+/-1.80%) bm_fft.py 166682.99 -> 168221.86 : +1538.87 = +0.923% (+/-4.20%) bm_float.py 233415.23 -> 265524.90 : +32109.67 = +13.756% (+/-2.57%) bm_hexiom.py 628.59 -> 734.17 : +105.58 = +16.796% (+/-1.39%) bm_nqueens.py 225418.44 -> 232926.45 : +7508.01 = +3.331% (+/-3.10%) bm_pidigits.py 6322.00 -> 6379.52 : +57.52 = +0.910% (+/-5.62%) misc_aes.py 20670.10 -> 27223.18 : +6553.08 = +31.703% (+/-1.56%) misc_mandel.py 138221.11 -> 152014.01 : +13792.90 = +9.979% (+/-2.46%) misc_pystone.py 85032.14 -> 105681.44 : +20649.30 = +24.284% (+/-2.25%) misc_raytrace.py 19800.01 -> 23350.73 : +3550.72 = +17.933% (+/-2.79%) In summary, compared to MICROPY_OPT_CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE, the new MICROPY_OPT_LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and MICROPY_OPT_MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE options: - are simpler; - take less code size; - are faster (generally); - work with code generated by the native emitter; - can be used on embedded targets with a small and constant RAM overhead; - allow the same .mpy bytecode to run on all targets. See #7680 for further discussion. And see also #7653 for a discussion about simplifying mpy-cross options. Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>
2019-12-12py/persistentcode: Make ARM Thumb archs support multiple sub-archs.Damien George
2019-12-12py/persistentcode: Add ability to relocate loaded native code.Damien George
Implements text, rodata and bss generalised relocations, as well as generic qstr-object linking. This allows importing dynamic native modules on all supported architectures in a unified way.
2019-11-04py/modsys: Report .mpy version in sys.implementation.Damien George
This commit adds a sys.implementation.mpy entry when the system supports importing .mpy files. This entry is a 16-bit integer which encodes two bytes of information from the header of .mpy files that are supported by the system being run: the second and third bytes, .mpy version, and flags and native architecture. This allows determining the supported .mpy file dynamically by code, and also for the user to find it out by inspecting this value. It's further possible to dynamically detect if the system supports importing .mpy files by `hasattr(sys.implementation, 'mpy')`.
2019-11-04py/persistentcode: Move declarations for .mpy header from .c to .h file.Damien George
2019-10-05py: Add new Xtensa-Windowed arch for native emitter.Damien George
Enabled via the configuration MICROPY_EMIT_XTENSAWIN.
2019-09-26py/persistentcode: Bump .mpy version to 5.Damien George
The bytecode opcodes have changed (there are more, and they have been reordered).
2019-05-07mpy-cross: Add --version command line option to print version info.Damien George
Prints something like: MicroPython v1.10-304-g8031b7a25 on 2019-05-02; mpy-cross emitting mpy v4
2019-03-08py: Add support to save native, viper and asm code to .mpy files.Damien George
This commit adds support for saving and loading .mpy files that contain native code (native, viper and inline-asm). A lot of the ground work was already done for this in the form of removing pointers from generated native code. The changes here are mainly to link in qstr values to the native code, and change the format of .mpy files to contain native code blocks (possibly mixed with bytecode). A top-level summary: - @micropython.native, @micropython.viper and @micropython.asm_thumb/ asm_xtensa are now allowed in .py files when compiling to .mpy, and they work transparently to the user. - Entire .py files can be compiled to native via mpy-cross -X emit=native and for the most part the generated .mpy files should work the same as their bytecode version. - The .mpy file format is changed to 1) specify in the header if the file contains native code and if so the architecture (eg x86, ARMV7M, Xtensa); 2) for each function block the kind of code is specified (bytecode, native, viper, asm). - When native code is loaded from a .mpy file the native code must be modified (in place) to link qstr values in, just like bytecode (see py/persistentcode.c:arch_link_qstr() function). In addition, this now defines a public, native ABI for dynamically loadable native code generated by other languages, like C.
2016-11-16py: Factor out persistent-code reader into separate files.Damien George
Implementations of persistent-code reader are provided for POSIX systems and systems using FatFS. Macros to use these are MICROPY_READER_POSIX and MICROPY_READER_FATFS respectively. If an alternative implementation is needed then a port can define the function mp_reader_new_file.
2016-11-16py: Factor persistent code load/save funcs into persistentcode.[ch].Damien George