The Go programming language
Go to file
Russ Cox b700cb4974 cmd/gc: shorten temporary lifetimes when possible
The new channel and map runtime routines take pointers
to values, typically temporaries. Without help, the compiler
cannot tell when those temporaries stop being needed,
because it isn't sure what happened to the pointer.
Arrange to insert explicit VARKILL instructions for these
temporaries so that the liveness analysis can avoid seeing
them as "ambiguously live".

The change is made in order.c, which was already in charge of
introducing temporaries to preserve the order-of-evaluation
guarantees. Now its job has expanded to include introducing
temporaries as needed by runtime routines, and then also
inserting the VARKILL annotations for all these temporaries,
so that their lifetimes can be shortened.

In order to do its job for the map runtime routines, order.c arranges
that all map lookups or map assignments have the form:

        x = m[k]
        x, y = m[k]
        m[k] = x

where x, y, and k are simple variables (often temporaries).
Likewise, receiving from a channel is now always:

        x = <-c

In order to provide the map guarantee, order.c is responsible for
rewriting x op= y into x = x op y, so that m[k] += z becomes

        t = m[k]
        t2 = t + z
        m[k] = t2

While here, fix a few bugs in order.c's traversal: it was failing to
walk into select and switch case bodies, so order of evaluation
guarantees were not preserved in those situations.
Added tests to test/reorder2.go.

Fixes #7671.

In gc/popt's temporary-merging optimization, allow merging
of temporaries with their address taken as long as the liveness
ranges do not intersect. (There is a good chance of that now
that we have VARKILL annotations to limit the liveness range.)

Explicitly killing temporaries cuts the number of ambiguously
live temporaries that must be zeroed in the godoc binary from
860 to 711, or -17%. There is more work to be done, but this
is a good checkpoint.

Update #7345

LGTM=khr
R=khr
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/81940043
2014-04-01 13:31:38 -04:00
api api: update next.txt 2014-04-01 13:14:45 -04:00
doc doc/go1.3.html: contiguous stacks 2014-03-28 12:55:37 +11:00
include cmd/ld: clear unused ctxt before morestack 2014-03-04 13:53:08 -05:00
lib codereview: remove unused upload_options.revision 2014-02-24 10:11:37 -05:00
misc benchcmp: leave a forwarding script 2014-03-31 16:39:41 -04:00
src cmd/gc: shorten temporary lifetimes when possible 2014-04-01 13:31:38 -04:00
test cmd/gc: shorten temporary lifetimes when possible 2014-04-01 13:31:38 -04:00
.hgignore lib9: enable on Plan 9 2014-02-13 20:06:41 +01:00
.hgtags tag go1.2.1 2014-03-03 13:22:13 +11:00
AUTHORS A+C: Erik Westrup (individual CLA) 2014-03-26 15:23:05 -07:00
CONTRIBUTORS A+C: Erik Westrup (individual CLA) 2014-03-26 15:23:05 -07:00
LICENSE doc: update licensing text one more time 2012-03-27 15:09:13 +11:00
PATENTS
README README: Fix installation instructions 2013-11-20 13:47:37 -08:00
favicon.ico godoc: update favicon 2012-10-11 17:02:36 +11:00
robots.txt

README

This is the source code repository for the Go programming language.  

For documentation about how to install and use Go,
visit http://golang.org/ or load doc/install-source.html
in your web browser.

After installing Go, you can view a nicely formatted
doc/install-source.html by running godoc --http=:6060
and then visiting http://localhost:6060/doc/install/source.

Unless otherwise noted, the Go source files are distributed
under the BSD-style license found in the LICENSE file.

--

Binary Distribution Notes

If you have just untarred a binary Go distribution, you need to set
the environment variable $GOROOT to the full path of the go
directory (the one containing this README).  You can omit the
variable if you unpack it into /usr/local/go, or if you rebuild
from sources by running all.bash (see doc/install.html).
You should also add the Go binary directory $GOROOT/bin
to your shell's path.

For example, if you extracted the tar file into $HOME/go, you might
put the following in your .profile:

    export GOROOT=$HOME/go
    export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin

See doc/install.html for more details.