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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: scratch/bytecode-speedup 1dca615cf9 08/11: Move a runtime interpreter check to ENABLE_CHECKING
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 12:22:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7db6yyzd.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220111165050.357D6C0DA35@vcs2.savannah.gnu.org> ("Mattias Engdegård"'s message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:50:50 -0500 (EST)")

> +  /* The byte code should have been properly pinned.  */
>    eassert (SDATA (bytestr) == bytestr_data);
> -
>    /* Binds and unbinds are supposed to be compiled balanced.  */
> -  if (SPECPDL_INDEX () != count)
> -    {
> -      if (SPECPDL_INDEX () > count)
> -	unbind_to (count, Qnil);
> -      error ("binding stack not balanced (serious byte compiler bug)");
> -    }
> +  eassert (SPECPDL_INDEX () == count);

This makes compiler debugging harder since it crashes Emacs instead of
signaling a clean error :-(

Maybe this actually should not be an error at all, and instead
`bytecomp.el` could skip emitting trailing `unbind`s and rely on
`exec_byte_code` doing the unbinds instead.

I think this would result in a speed up (and a more compact bytecode)
with dynbind code.  Not sure how it'd work out with lexbind code where
it's much more common for functions not to need any `unbind`.


        Stefan




      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-11 17:22 UTC|newest]

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2022-01-11 17:09   ` scratch/bytecode-speedup 870806d4c4 04/11: Pin bytecode strings to avoid copy at call time Stefan Monnier
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2022-01-11 17:22   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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