Rename fields in a page record and split some of them with `union` to
better document the intent of each field.
This change is intended to have no effect on the GC's behavior. One
tricky case is the line dropped around line 3542 of "newgc.c". That
line reset `scan_boundary` (formerly `previous_size`), which on the
surface is inconsistent with leving objects before the boundary
without `marked` bits set. However, that line is reachable only
when geneation-1 objects are being marked (objects newly moved
there would not be unmarked), in which case `san_boundary` should
already be reset.
Using `--enable-racket=auto` causes a Racket for the current platform
to be built in a "local" subdirectory of the build directory as
support for cross-compilation.
The original idea was to count phantom bytes as "administrative
overhead", but issues discussed in #962 identified problems
with that idea. Finish shifting the accounting to treat
phantom bytes as payload allocation.
On my machine, the sync path was sometimes triggered for "htdp-ptr".
(I'm not sure why; progress toward determinsitic bytecode might
be relevant.) Adjust the trigger for sync mode to check that the
needed "provides.sxref" file exists.
The misplacement of `SCHEME_PRIM_SOMETIMES_INLINED` caused the
optimizer to produce different results when the JIT is statically
disabled, for example.
This bug is an old one, in a sense, because travesing fields
in a closure could have moved the prefix with earlier versions
of the collector. It shows up now because we're changing fields
one indirection closer.
Compact fewer blocks by moving them only when other
blocks have room.
Also, fix block protection tracking in the case of a page
count that isn't divisible by 8.
In the common case of a minor GC without a generation 1/2
or a major GC without compaction, a single pass suffices
to both mark and update references.
This change reduces overall GC time by 10%-25% on typical
programs.
The GC supported allocation for an array of objects where
the first one provides a tag, but at this point it was
used only in some corners. Change those corner and simplify
the GC by removing support for arrays of tagged objects.
The main corner to clean up is in the handling of a macro-expansion
observer and inferred names. Move those into the compile-time
environment. It's possible that name inference has been
broken by the changes, but in addition to passing the tests,
the generated bytecode for the base collections is exactly the
same as before the change.
Although a block cache is set up to group most page-protection changes
into a single OS call, allocating new old-generation pages was not
covered. Adjust the block cache to group those.
This change has a small effect on performance, but it seems
better to have a few system calls in place of thousands.
First bug:
When the optimize converts
(let-values ([(X ...) (values M ...)])
....)
to
(let ([X M] ...)
....)
it incorrectly attached a virtual timestamp to each "[X M]" binding
that corresponds to the timestamp after the whole `(values M ...)`.
The solution is to approximate tracking the timestamp for invidual
expressions.
Second bug:
The compiler could reorder a continuation-capturing expression past
an allocation.
The solution is to track allocations with a new virtual clock.
Make `eval-syntax`, `compile-syntax`, and `expand-syntax` more
consistent (with intent and each other) by not installing a fallback
automatically. In particular, a fallback is not installed for a
`module` form, so that different ways of expanding a `module` form
produce consistent results (e.g., for ambiguous bindings).
