Change the GC so that it can mark and sweep objects in-place, instead
of always copying. This change is helpful for reducing peak memory
use while performing a collection on a large, old heap.
Some non-copying support was already in place for locked objects,
but the new implementation is faster and more general. As an
alternative to locking, the storage manager now provides "immobile"
allocation (currently only for bytevectors, vectors, and boxes),
which allocates an object that won't move but that can be GCed if
it's not referenced. A locked object is an object that has been
immobiled and that is on a global list --- mostly the old,
non-scalable implementation of locked objects brought back, since
immobile objects cover the cases that need to scale.
original commit: aecb7b736cb1d52764c292fa6364a674958dfde3
Only half(!) of the needed space was actually allocated. The extra
space is ony used after a GC, however, and a GC makes the extra room,
so that's why things haven't fallen over completely, but that's more
subtle than intended.
original commit: 3d72bc14b9247d6764809cb651403dbb4063a905
- added invoke-library
syntax.ss, primdata.ss,
8.ms, root-experr*,
libraries.stex, release_notes.stex
- updated the date
release_notes.stex
- libraries contained within a whole program or library are now
marked pending before their invoke code is run so that invoke
cycles are reported as such rather than as attempts to invoke
while still loading.
compile.ss, syntax.ss, primdata.ss,
7.ms, root-experr*
- the library manager now protects against unbound references
from separately compiled libraries or programs to identifiers
ostensibly but not actually exported by (invisible) libraries
that exist only locally within a whole program. this is done by
marking the invisibility of the library in the library-info and
propagating it to libdesc records; the latter is checked upon
library import, visit, and invoke as well as by verify-loadability.
the import and visit code of each invisible no longer complains
about invisibility since it shouldn't be reachable.
syntax.ss, compile.ss, expand-lang.ss,
7.ms, 8.ms, root-experr*, patch*
- documented that compile-whole-xxx's linearization of the
library initialization code based on static dependencies might
not work for dynamic dependencies.
system.stex
- optimized bignum right shifts so the code (1) doesn't look at
shifted-off bigits if the bignum is positive, since it doesn't
need to know in that case if any bits are set; (2) doesn't look
at shifted-off bigits if the bignum is negative if it determines
that at least one bit is set in the bits shifted off the low-order
partially retained bigit; (3) quits looking, if it must look, for
one bits as soon as it finds one; (4) looks from both ends under
the assumption that set bits, if any, are most likely to be found
toward the high or low end of the bignum rather than just in the
middle; and (5) doesn't copy the retained bigits and then shift;
rather shifts as it copies. This leads to dramatic improvements
when the shift count is large and often significant improvements
otherwise.
number.c,
5_3.ms,
release_notes.stex
- threaded tc argument through to all calls to S_bignum and
S_trunc_rem so they don't have to call get_thread_context()
when it might already have been called.
alloc.c, number.c, fasl.c, print.c, prim5.c, externs.h
- added an expand-primitive handler to partially inline integer?.
cpnanopass.ss
- added some special cases for basic arithmetic operations (+, -, *,
/, quotient, remainder, and the div/div0/mod/mod0 operations) to
avoid doing unnecessary work for large bignums when the result
will be zero (e.g,. multiplying by 0), the same as one of the
inputs (e.g., adding 0 or multiplying by 1), or the additive
inverse of one of the inputs (e.g., subtracting from 0, dividing
by -1). This can have a major beneficial affect when operating
on large bignums in the cases handled. also converted some uses
of / into integer/ where going through the former would just add
overhead without the possibility of optimization.
5_3.ss,
number.c, externs.h, prim5.c,
5_3.ms, root-experr, patch*,
release_notes.stex
- added a queue to hold pending signals for which handlers have
been registered via register-signal-handler so up to 63 (configurable
in the source code) unhandled signals are buffered before the
handler has to start dropping them.
cmacros.ss, library.ss, prims.ss, primdata.ss,
schsig.c, externs.h, prim5.c, thread.c, gc.c,
unix.ms,
system.stex, release_notes.stex
- bytevector-compress now selects the level of compression based
on the compress-level parameter. Prior to this it always used a
default setting for compression. the compress-level parameter
can now take on the new minimum in addition to low, medium, high,
and maximum. minimum is presently treated the same as low
except in the case of lz4 bytevector compression, where it
results in the use of LZ4_compress_default rather than the
slower but more effective LZ4_compress_HC.
cmacros,ss, back.ss,
compress_io.c, new_io.c, externs.h,
bytevector.ms, mats/Mf-base, root-experr*
io.stex, objects.stex, release_notes.stex
original commit: 72d90e4c67849908da900d0b6249a1dedb5f8c7f
Fix 'reloc to avoid a crash on static-generation code, and add
'reloc+offset to report an offset for each entry.
original commit: 4d4195044377f9c619cfb46056e365044069d5bc
Uninterned symbols are slightly more expensive to allocate than 0- or
1-argument calls to `gensym`, but they're much cheaper to hash (and
print). They're also more consistently distinct when unfasled, and the
fasled form is determinsitic.
original commit: 3167083008031b1f880e76a6f573563c7d9c888c
The MRG32k3a generator is fast when using unboxed floating-point
arithemtic. Since the Scheme compiler doesn't yet support that,
build MRG32k3a into the kernel and provide access via
`pseudo-random-generator` functions.
original commit: 3dd74679a6c2705440488d8c07c47852eb50a94b
and functionality improvements (including support for measuring
coverage), primitive argument-checking fixes, and object-file changes
resulting in reduced load times (and some backward incompatibility):
- annotations are now preserved in object files for debug
only, for profiling only, for both, or not at all, depending
on the settings of generate-inspector-information and
compile-profile. in particular, when inspector information
is not enabled but profiling is, source information does
not leak into error messages and inspector output, though it is
still available via the profile tools. The mechanics of this
involved repurposing the fasl a? parameter to hold an annotation
flags value when it is not #f and remaking annotations with
new flags if necessary before emitting them.
compile.ss, fasl.ss, misc.ms
- altered a number of mats to produce correct results even
when the 's' directory is profiled.
misc.ms, cp0.ms, record.ms
- profile-release-counters is now generation-friendly; that is,
it doesn't look for dropped code objects in generations that have
not been collected since the last call to profile-release-counters.
also, it no longer allocates memory when it releases counters.
pdhtml.ss,
gc.c, gcwrapper.c, globals.h, prim5.c
- removed unused entry points S_ifile, S_ofile, and S_iofile
alloc.c, externs.h
- mats that test loading profile info into the compiler's database
to guide optimization now weed out preexisting entries, in case
the 's' directory is profiled.
4.ms, mat.ss, misc.ms, primvars.ms
- counters for dropped code objects are now released at the start
of each mat group.
mat.ss
- replaced ehc (enable-heap-check) option with hci (heap-check-interval)
option that allows heap checks to be performed periodically rather
than on each collection. hci=0 is equivalent to ehc=f (disabling
heap checks) and hci=1 is equivalent to ehc=t (enabling heap
checks every collection), while hci=100 enables heap checks only
every 100th collection. allx and bullyx mats use this feature
to reduce heap-checking overhead to a more reasonable level. this
is particularly important when the 's' directory is profiled,
since the amount of static memory to be checked is greatly increased
due to the counters.
mats/Mf-base, mat.ss, primvars.ms
- added a mat that calls #%show-allocation, which was otherwise not
being tested.
misc.ms
- removed a broken primvars mat and updated two others. in each case,
the mat was looking for information about primitives in the wrong
(i.e., old) place and silently succeeding when it didn't find any
primitives to tests. the revised mats (along with a few others) now
check to make sure at least one identifier has the information they
look for. the removed mat was checking for library information that
is now compiled in, so the mat is now unnecessary. the others were
(not) doing argument-error checks. fixing these turned up a handful of
problems that have also been fixed: a couple of unbound variables in the
mat driver, two broken primdata declarations, a tardy argument check
by profile-load-data, and a bug in char-ready?, which was requiring
an argument rather than defaulting it to the current input port.
primdata.ss, pdhtml.ss, io.ms,
primdvars.ms, 4.ms, 6.ms, misc.ms, patch*
- added initial support for recording coverage information. when the
new parameter generate-covin-files is set, the compiler generates
.covin files containing the universe of all source objects for which
profile forms are present in the expander output. when profiling
and generation of covin files are enabled in the 's' directory, the
mats optionally generate .covout files for each mat file giving
the subset of the universe covered by the mat file, along with an
all.covout in each mat output directory aggregating the coverage
for the directory and another all.covout in the top-level mat
directory aggregating the coverage for all directories.
back.ss, compile.ss, cprep.ss, primdata.ss, s/Mf-base,
mat.ss, mats/Mf-base, mats/primvars.ms
- support for generating covout files is now built in. with-coverage-output
gathers and dumps coverage information, and aggregate-coverage-output
combines (aggregates) covout files.
pdhtml.ss, primdata.ss, compile.ss,
mat.ss, mats/Mf-base, primvars.ms
- profile-clear now adjusts active coverage trackers to avoid losing
coverage information.
pdhtml.ss,
prim5.c
- nested with-coverage calls are now supported.
pdhtml.ss
- switched to a more compact representation for covin and covout files;
reduces disk space (compressed or not) by about a factor of four
and read time by about a factor of two with no increase in write time.
primdata.ss, pdhtml.ss, cprep.ss, compile.ss,
mat.ss, mats/Mf-base
- added support for determining coverage for an entire run, including
coverage for expressions hit during boot time. 'all' mats now produce
run.covout files in each output directory, and 'allx' mats produce
an aggregate run.covout file in the mat directory.
pdhtml.ss,
mat.ss, mats/Mf-base
- profile-release-counters now adjusts active coverage trackers to
account for the counters that have been released.
pdhtml.ss,
prim5.c
- replaced the artificial "examples" target with a real "build-examples"
target so make won't think it always has to mats that depend upon
the examples directory having been compiled. mats make clean now
runs make clean in the examples directory.
mats/Mf-base
importing a library from an object file now just visits the object
file rather than doing a full load so that the run-time code for
the library is not retained. The run-time code is still read
because the current fasl format forces the entire file to be read,
but not retaining the code can lower heap size and garbage-collection
cost, particularly when many object-code libraries are imported.
The downside is that the file must be revisited if the run-time
code turns out to be required. This change exposed several
places where the code was failing to check if a revisit is needed.
syntax.ss,
7.ms, 8.ms, misc.ms, root-experr*
- fixed typos: was passing unquoted load rather than quoted load
to $load-library along one path (where it is loading source code
and therefore irrelevant), and was reporting src-path rather than
obj-path in a message about failing to define a library.
syntax.ss
- compile-file and friends now put all recompile information in
the first fasl object after the header so the library manager can
find it without loading the entire fasl file. The library manager
now does so. It also now checks to see if library object files
need to be recreated before loading them rather than loading them and
possibly recompiling them after discovering they are out of date, since
the latter requires loading the full object file even if it's out of
date, while the former takes advantage of the ability to extract just
recompile information. as well as reducing overhead, this eliminates
possibly undesirable side effects, such as creation and registration
of out-of-date nongenerative record-type descriptors. because the
library manager expects to find recompile information at the front of
an object file, it will not find all recompile information if object
files are "catted" together. also, compile-file has to hold in memory
the object code for all expressions in the file so that it can emit the
unified recompile information, rather than writing to the object file
incrementally, which can significantly increase the memory required
to compile a large file full of individual top-level forms. This does
not affect top-level programs, which were already handled as a whole,
or a typical library file that contains just a single library form.
compile.ss, syntax.ss
- the library manager now checks include files before library dependencies
when compile-imported-libraries is false (as it already did when
compile-imported-libraries is true) in case a source change affects
the set of imported libraries. (A library change can affect the set
of include files as well, but checking dependencies before include
files can cause unneeded libraries to be loaded.) The include-file
check is based on recompile-info rather than dependencies, but the
library checks are still based on dependencies.
syntax.ss
- fixed check for binding of scheme-version. (the check prevents
premature treatment of recompile-info records as Lexpand forms
to be passed to $interpret-backend.)
scheme.c
- strip-fasl-file now preserves recompile-info when compile-time info
is stripped.
strip.ss
- removed include-req* from library/ct-info and ctdesc records; it
is no longer needed now that all recompile information is maintained
separately.
expand-lang.ss, syntax.ss, compile.ss, cprep.ss, syntax.ss
- changed the fasl format and reworked a lot of code in the expander,
compiler, fasl writer, and fasl reader to allow the fasl reader
to skip past run-time information when it isn't needed and
compile-time information when it isn't needed. Skipping past
still involves reading and decoding when encrypted, but the fasl
reader no longer parses or allocates code and data in the portions
to be skipped. Side effects of associating record uids with rtds
are also avoided, as are the side effects of interning symbols
present only in the skipped data. Skipping past code objects
also reduces or eliminates the need to synchronize data and
instruction caches. Since the fasl reader no longer returns
compile-time (visit) or run-time (revisit) code and data when not
needed, the fasl reader no longer wraps these objects in a pair
with a 0 or 1 visit or revisit marker. To support this change,
the fasl writer generates separate top-level fasl entries (and
graphs) for separate forms in the same top-level source form
(e.g., begin or library). This reliably breaks eq-ness of shared
structure across these forms, which was previously broken only
when visit or revisit code was loaded at different times (this
is an incompatible change). Because of the change, fasl "groups"
are no longer needed, so they are no longer handled.
7.ss, cmacros.ss, compile.ss, expand-lang.ss, strip.ss,
externs.h, fasl.c, scheme.c,
hash.ms
- the change above is surfaced in an optional fasl-read "situation"
argument (visit, revisit, or load). The default is load. visit
causes it to skip past revisit code and data; revisit causes it
to skip past visit code and data; and load causes it not to skip
past either. visit-revisit data produced by (eval-when (visit
revisit) ---) is never skipped.
7.ss, primdata.ss,
io.stex
- to improve compile-time and run-time error checking, the
Lexpand recompile-info, library/rt-info, library-ct-info, and
program-info forms have been replaced with list-structured forms,
e.g., (recompile-info ,rcinfo).
expand-lang.ss, compile.ss, cprep.ss, interpret.ss, syntax.ss
- added visit-compiled-from-port and revisit-compiled-from-port
to complement the existing load-compiled-from-port.
7.ss, primdata.ss,
7.ms,
system.stex
- increased amount read when seeking an lz4-encrypted input
file from 32 to 1024 bytes at a time
compress-io.c
- replaced the fasl a? parameter value #t with an "all" flag value
so it's value is consistently a mask.
cmacros.ss, fasl.ss, compile.ss
- split off profile mats into a separate file
misc.ms, profile.ms (new), root-experr*, mats/Mf-base
- added coverage percent computations to mat allx/bullyx output
mat.ss, mats/Mf-base, primvars.ms
- replaced coverage tables with more generic and generally useful
source tables, which map source objects to arbitrary values.
pdhtml.ss, compile.ss, cprep.ss, primdata.ss,
mat.ss, mats/Mf-base, primvars.ms, profile.ms,
syntax.stex
- reduced profile counting overhead by using calls to fold-left
instead of calls to apply and map and by using fixnum operations
for profile counts on 64-bit machines.
pdhtml.ss
- used a critical section to fix a race condition in the calculations
of profile counts that sometimes resulted in bogus (including
negative) counts, especially when the 's' directory is profiled.
pdhtml.ss
- added discard flag to declaration for hashtable-size
primdata.ss
- redesigned the printed representation of source tables and rewrote
get-source-table! to read and store incrementally to reduce memory
overhead.
compile.ss
- added generate-covin-files to the set of parameters preserved
by compile-file, etc.
compile.ss,
system.stex
- moved covop argument before the undocumented machine and hostop
arguments to compile-port and compile-to-port. removed the
undocumented ofn argument from compile-to-port; using
(port-name ip) instead.
compile.ss, primdata.ss,
7.ms,
system.stex
- compile-port now tries to come up with a file position to supply
to make-read, which it can do if the port's positions are character
positions (presently string ports) or if the port is positioned
at zero.
compile.ss
- audited the argument-type-error fuzz mat exceptions and fixed a
host of problems this turned up (entries follow). added #f as
an invalid argument for every type for which #f is indeed invalid
to catch places where the maybe- prefix was missing on the argument
type. the mat tries hard to determine if the condition raised
(if any) as the result of an invalid argument is appropriate and
redirects the remainder to the mat-output (.mo) file prefixed
with 'Expected error', causing them to show up in the expected
error output so developers will be encouraged to audit them in
the future.
primvars.ms, mat.ss
- added an initial symbol? test on machine type names so we produce
an invalid machine type error message rather than something
confusing like "machine type #f is not supported".
compile.ss
- fixed declarations for many primitives that were specified as
accepting arguments of more general types than they actually
accept, such as number -> real for various numeric operations,
symbol -> endianness for various bytevector operations,
time -> time-utc for time-utc->date, and list -> list-of-string-pairs
for default-library-search-handler. also replaced some of the
sub-xxxx types with specific types such as sub-symbol -> endianness
in utf16->string, but only where they were causing issues with
the primvars argument-type-error fuzz mat. (this should be done
more generally.)
primdata.ss
- fixed incorrect who arguments (was map instead of fold-right,
current-date instead of time-utc->date); switched to using
define-who/set-who! generally.
4.ss, date.ss
- append! now checks all arguments before any mutation
5_2.ss
- with-source-path now properly supplies itself as who for the
string? argument check; callers like load now do their own checks.
7.ss
- added missing integer? check to $fold-bytevector-native-ref whose
lack could have resulted in a compile-time error.
cp0.ss
- fixed typo in output-port-buffer-mode error message
io.ss
- fixed who argument (was fx< rather than fx<?)
library.ss
- fixed declaration of first source-file-descriptor argument (was
sfd, now string)
primdata.ss
- added missing article 'a' in a few error messages
prims.ss
- fixed the copy-environment argument-type error message for the list
of symbols argument.
syntax.ss
- the environment procedure now catches exceptions that occur and
reraises the exception with itself as who if the condition isn't
already a who condition.
syntax.ss
- updated experr and allx patch files for changes to argument-count
fuzz mat and fixes for problems turned up by them.
root-experr*, patch*
- fixed a couple of issues setting port sizes: string and bytevector
output port put handlers don't need room to store the character
or byte, so they now set the size to the buffer length rather
than one less. binary-file-port-clear-output now sets the index
rather than size to zero; setting the size to zero is inappropriate
for some types of ports and could result in loss of buffering and
even suppression of future output. removed a couple of redundant
sets of the size that occur immediately after setting the buffer.
io.ss
- it is now possible to return from a call to with-profile-tracker
multiple times and not double-count (or worse) any counts.
pdhtml.ss, profile.ms
- read-token now requires a file position when it is handed a
source-file descriptor (since the source-file descriptor isn't
otherwise useful), and the source-file descriptor argument can
no longer be #f. the input file position plays the same role as
the input file position in get-datum/annotations. these extra
read-token arguments are now documented.
read.ss,
6.ms,
io.stex
- the source-file descriptor argument to get-datum/annotations can
no longer be #f. it was already documented that way.
read.ss
- read-token and do-read now look for the character-positions port
flag before asking if the port has port-position, since the latter
is slightly more expensive.
read.ss
- rd-error now reports the current port position if it can be determined
when fp isn't already set, i.e., when reading from a port without
character positions (presently any non string port) and fp has not
been passed in explicitly (to read-token or get-datum/annotations).
the port position might not be a character position, but it should be
better than nothing.
read.ss
- added comment noting an invariant for s_profile_release_counters.
prim5.c
- restored accidentally dropped fasl-write formdef and dropped
duplicate fasl-read formdef
io.stex
- added a 'coverage' target that tests the coverage of the Scheme-code
portions of Chez Scheme by the mats.
Makefile.in, Makefile-workarea.in
- added .PHONY declarations for all of the targets in the top-level
and workarea make files, and renamed the create-bintar, create-rpm,
and create-pkg targets bintar, rpm, and pkg.
Makefile.in, Makefile-workarea.in
- added missing --retain-static-relocation command-line argument and
updated the date
scheme.1.in
- removed a few redundant conditional variable settings
configure
- fixed declaration of condition wait (timeout -> maybe-timeout)
primdata.ss
original commit: 88501743001393fa82e89c90da9185fc0086fbcb
reclaimed by the collector and must be released explicitly by the
programmer via (profile-release-counters).
pdhtml.ss, primdata.ss,
globals.h, externs.h, fasl.c, prim5.c, prim.c, alloc.c, scheme.c,
misc.ms,
release_notes.stex, system.stex
original commit: 68e20f721618dbaf4c1634067c2bee24a493a750
sizes of pathnames produced by expansion of tilde (home-directory)
prefixes by replacing S_pathname, S_pathname_impl, and S_homedir
with S_malloc_pathname, which always mallocs space for the result.
one thread-safety issue involved the use of static strings for expanded
pathnames and affected various file-system operations. the other
affected the file open routines and involved use of the incoming
pathname while deactivated. the incoming pathname is sometimes if not
always a pointer into a Scheme bytevector, which can be overwritten if a
collection occurs while the thread is deactivated. the size limitation
corresponded to the use of the static strings, which were limited to
PATH_MAX bytes. (PATH_MAX typically isn't actually the maximum path
length in contemporary operating systems.) eliminated similar issues
for wide pathnames under Windows by adding S_malloc_wide_pathname.
consumers of the old routines have been modified to use the new
routines and to free the result strings. the various file operations
now consistently treat a pathname with an unresolvable home directory
as a pathname that happens to start with a tilde. eliminated unused
foreign-symbol binding of "(cs)pathname" to S_pathname.
io.c, externs.h, new_io.c, prim5.c, scheme.c, prim.c
- various places where a call to close or gzclose was retried when
the close operation was interrupted no longer do so, since this can
cause problems when another thread has reallocated the same file
descriptor.
new_io.c
- now using vcvarsall type x86_amd64 rather than amd64 when the
former appears to supported and the latter does not, as is the
case with VS Express 2015.
c/Mf-a6nt, c/Mf-ta6nt
- commented out one of the thread mats that consistently causes
indefinite delays under Windows and OpenBSD due to starvation.
thread.ms
- increased wait time for a couple of subprocess responses
6.ms
- added call to collector to close files opened during iconv mats
specifically for when mats are run under Windows with no iconv dll.
io.ms
original commit: ad44924307c576eb2fc92e7958afe8b615a7f48b
silence unused return-value warnings.
prim5.c
- liberalized get-mode check for ../mats. it's not our business whether
people make their directories group and/or other writeable.
6.ms
original commit: b90a037c9fac18fdcbce73a42f28940e85a6c07b
