| 22 | 22 | Investigating performance regressions caused by the introduction of new opcodes. In particular, a simple for loop with no body regresses about 25%. It seemed at first that this has to do with the fact that these instructions call arbitrary external functions, but some odd performance differences still occur without these calls. '''Done''': the regression seems to be related to inlining of large function bodies into Machine::privateExecute(). In order to solve this, we have to remove ALWAYS_INLINE from some larger functions, and move some opcodes out into individual functions marked NEVER_INLINE. This is suboptimal, and we still don't know the exact reason why it is happening, but hopefully it will be easy enough to work around for now. Geoff and I worked this out and he landed [http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/31277 r31277], which fixes the problems we have seen thusfar. |
