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authorJemma Issroff <jemmaissroff@gmail.com>2022-09-23 13:54:42 -0400
committerAaron Patterson <aaron.patterson@gmail.com>2022-09-26 09:21:30 -0700
commit9ddfd2ca004d1952be79cf1b84c52c79a55978f4 (patch)
treefe5fa943d9a2dc7438db920a09173ab06f869993 /misc
parent2e88bca24ff4cafeb6afe5b062ff7181bc4b3a9b (diff)
This commit implements the Object Shapes technique in CRuby.
Object Shapes is used for accessing instance variables and representing the "frozenness" of objects. Object instances have a "shape" and the shape represents some attributes of the object (currently which instance variables are set and the "frozenness"). Shapes form a tree data structure, and when a new instance variable is set on an object, that object "transitions" to a new shape in the shape tree. Each shape has an ID that is used for caching. The shape structure is independent of class, so objects of different types can have the same shape. For example: ```ruby class Foo def initialize # Starts with shape id 0 @a = 1 # transitions to shape id 1 @b = 1 # transitions to shape id 2 end end class Bar def initialize # Starts with shape id 0 @a = 1 # transitions to shape id 1 @b = 1 # transitions to shape id 2 end end foo = Foo.new # `foo` has shape id 2 bar = Bar.new # `bar` has shape id 2 ``` Both `foo` and `bar` instances have the same shape because they both set instance variables of the same name in the same order. This technique can help to improve inline cache hits as well as generate more efficient machine code in JIT compilers. This commit also adds some methods for debugging shapes on objects. See `RubyVM::Shape` for more details. For more context on Object Shapes, see [Feature: #18776] Co-Authored-By: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org> Co-Authored-By: Eileen M. Uchitelle <eileencodes@gmail.com> Co-Authored-By: John Hawthorn <john@hawthorn.email>
Notes
Notes: Merged: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/6386
Diffstat (limited to 'misc')
-rwxr-xr-xmisc/lldb_cruby.py6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/misc/lldb_cruby.py b/misc/lldb_cruby.py
index 595d54dfab..da97e28b69 100755
--- a/misc/lldb_cruby.py
+++ b/misc/lldb_cruby.py
@@ -418,9 +418,13 @@ def lldb_inspect(debugger, target, result, val):
elif flType == RUBY_T_IMEMO:
# I'm not sure how to get IMEMO_MASK out of lldb. It's not in globals()
imemo_type = (flags >> RUBY_FL_USHIFT) & 0x0F # IMEMO_MASK
+
print("T_IMEMO: ", file=result)
append_command_output(debugger, "p (enum imemo_type) %d" % imemo_type, result)
- append_command_output(debugger, "p *(struct MEMO *) %0#x" % val.GetValueAsUnsigned(), result)
+ if imemo_type == imemo_shape:
+ append_command_output(debugger, "p *(rb_shape_t *) %0#x" % val.GetValueAsUnsigned(), result)
+ else:
+ append_command_output(debugger, "p *(struct MEMO *) %0#x" % val.GetValueAsUnsigned(), result)
elif flType == RUBY_T_STRUCT:
tRTypedData = target.FindFirstType("struct RStruct").GetPointerType()
val = val.Cast(tRTypedData)