Annotation of gforth/profile.fs, revision 1.5

1.1       anton       1: \ count execution of control-flow edges
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1.1       anton      19: 
                     20: 
                     21: \ relies on some Gforth internals
                     22: 
                     23: \ !! assumption: each file is included only once; otherwise you get
                     24: \ the counts for just one of the instances of the file.  This can be
                     25: \ fixed by making sure that every source position occurs only once as
                     26: \ a profile point.
                     27: 
1.2       anton      28: true constant count-calls? \ do some profiling of colon definitions etc.
                     29: 
1.3       anton      30: \ for true COUNT-CALLS?:
                     31: 
                     32: \ What data do I need for evaluating the effectiveness of (partial) inlining?
                     33: 
                     34: \ static and dynamic counts of everything:
                     35: 
                     36: \ original BB length (histogram and average)
                     37: \ BB length with partial inlining (histogram and average)
                     38: \   since we cannot partially inline library calls, we use a parameter
                     39: \   that represents the amount of partial inlining we can expect there.
                     40: \ number of tail calls (original and after partial inlining)
                     41: \ number of calls (original and after partial inlining)
                     42: \ reason for BB end: call, return, execute, branch
                     43: 
                     44: \ how many static calls are there to a word?  How many of the dynamic
                     45: \ calls call just a single word?
                     46: 
1.1       anton      47: struct
                     48:     cell%    field profile-next
                     49:     cell% 2* field profile-count
                     50:     cell% 2* field profile-sourcepos
                     51:     cell%    field profile-char \ character position in line
1.2       anton      52:     count-calls? [if]
1.3       anton      53:        cell% field profile-colondef? \ is this a colon definition start
1.2       anton      54:        cell% field profile-calls \ static calls to the colon def
                     55:        cell% field profile-straight-line \ may contain calls, but no other CF
                     56:        cell% field profile-calls-from \ static calls in the colon def
                     57:     [endif]
1.1       anton      58: end-struct profile% \ profile point
                     59: 
                     60: variable profile-points \ linked list of profile%
                     61: 0 profile-points !
1.2       anton      62: variable next-profile-point-p \ the address where the next pp will be stored
                     63: profile-points next-profile-point-p !
                     64: count-calls? [if]
                     65:     variable last-colondef-profile \ pointer to the pp of last colon definition
                     66: [endif]
                     67:     
1.1       anton      68: : new-profile-point ( -- addr )
                     69:     profile% %alloc >r
                     70:     0. r@ profile-count 2!
                     71:     current-sourcepos r@ profile-sourcepos 2!
                     72:     >in @ r@ profile-char !
1.2       anton      73:     [ count-calls? ] [if]
                     74:        r@ profile-colondef? off
                     75:        0 r@ profile-calls !
                     76:        r@ profile-straight-line on
                     77:        0 r@ profile-calls-from !
                     78:     [endif]
                     79:     0 r@ profile-next !
                     80:     r@ next-profile-point-p @ !
                     81:     r@ profile-next next-profile-point-p !
1.1       anton      82:     r> ;
                     83: 
                     84: : print-profile ( -- )
                     85:     profile-points @ begin
                     86:        dup while
                     87:            dup >r
                     88:            r@ profile-sourcepos 2@ .sourcepos ." :"
                     89:            r@ profile-char @ 0 .r ." : "
                     90:            r@ profile-count 2@ 0 d.r cr
                     91:            r> profile-next @
                     92:     repeat
                     93:     drop ;
                     94: 
1.2       anton      95: : print-profile-coldef ( -- )
                     96:     profile-points @ begin
                     97:        dup while
                     98:            dup >r
                     99:            r@ profile-colondef? @ if
                    100:                r@ profile-sourcepos 2@ .sourcepos ." :"
                    101:                r@ profile-char @ 0 .r ." : "
                    102:                r@ profile-count 2@ 0 d.r
                    103:                r@ profile-straight-line @ space .
                    104:                cr
                    105:            endif
                    106:            r> profile-next @
                    107:     repeat
                    108:     drop ;
                    109: 
                    110: 
                    111: : dinc ( d-addr -- )
                    112:     \ increment double pointed to by d-addr
                    113:     dup 2@ 1. d+ rot 2! ;
                    114: 
                    115: : profile-this ( -- )
                    116:     new-profile-point profile-count POSTPONE literal POSTPONE dinc ;
                    117: 
                    118: \ Various words trigger PROFILE-THIS.  In order to avoid getting
                    119: \ several calls to PROFILE-THIS from a compiling word (like ?EXIT), we
                    120: \ just wait until the next word is parsed by the text interpreter (in
                    121: \ compile state) and call PROFILE-THIS only once then.  The whole
                    122: \ BEFORE-WORD hooking etc. is there for this.
                    123: 
                    124: \ The reason that we do this is because we use the source position for
                    125: \ the profiling information, and there's only one source position for
                    126: \ ?EXIT.  If we used the threaded code position instead, we would see
                    127: \ that ?EXIT compiles to several threaded-code words, and could use
                    128: \ different profile points for them.  However, usually dealing with
                    129: \ the source is more practical.
                    130: 
                    131: \ Another benefit is that we can ask for profiling anywhere in a
                    132: \ control-flow word (even before it compiles its own stuff).
                    133: 
                    134: \ Potential problem: Consider "COMPILING ] [" where COMPILING compiles
                    135: \ a whole colon definition (and triggers our profiler), but during the
                    136: \ compilation of the colon definition there is no parsing.  Afterwards
                    137: \ you get interpret state at first (no profiling, either), but after
                    138: \ the "]" you get parsing in compile state, and PROFILE-THIS gets
                    139: \ called (and compiles code that is never executed).  It would be
                    140: \ better if we had a way of knowing whether we are in a colon def or
                    141: \ not (and used that knowledge instead of STATE).
                    142: 
                    143: Defer before-word-profile ( -- )
                    144: ' noop IS before-word-profile
                    145: 
                    146: : before-word1 ( -- )
                    147:     before-word-profile defers before-word ;
                    148: 
                    149: ' before-word1 IS before-word
                    150: 
                    151: : profile-this-compiling ( -- )
                    152:     state @ if
                    153:        profile-this
                    154:        ['] noop IS before-word-profile
                    155:     endif ;
                    156: 
                    157: : cock-profiler ( -- )
                    158:     \ as in cock the gun - pull the trigger
                    159:     ['] profile-this-compiling IS before-word-profile
                    160:     [ count-calls? ] [if] \ we are at a non-colondef profile point
                    161:        last-colondef-profile @ profile-straight-line off
                    162:     [endif]
                    163: ;
                    164: 
                    165: : hook-profiling-into ( "name" -- )
                    166:     \ make (deferred word) "name" call cock-profiler, too
                    167:     ' >body >r :noname
                    168:     POSTPONE cock-profiler
                    169:     r@ @ compile, \ old hook behaviour
                    170:     POSTPONE ;
                    171:     r> ! ; \ change hook behaviour
                    172: 
                    173: hook-profiling-into then-like
1.3       anton     174: \ hook-profiling-into if-like    \ subsumed by other-control-flow
                    175: \ hook-profiling-into ahead-like \ subsumed by other-control-flow
1.2       anton     176: hook-profiling-into other-control-flow
                    177: hook-profiling-into begin-like
                    178: hook-profiling-into again-like
                    179: hook-profiling-into until-like
                    180: 
                    181: count-calls? [if]
                    182:     : :-hook-profile ( -- )
                    183:        defers :-hook
                    184:        next-profile-point-p @
                    185:        profile-this
                    186:        @ dup last-colondef-profile !
                    187:        profile-colondef? on ;
                    188: 
                    189:     ' :-hook-profile IS :-hook
                    190: [else]
                    191:     hook-profiling-into exit-like
                    192:     hook-profiling-into :-hook
                    193: [endif]

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