bug#69249: bug in native-compile?

[Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer@gmail.com>]

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Look out, here it comes, as Tracy Schwarz says.

The following DISASSEMBLE might tell you what you need to do for
native-compile.

Speaking with the utmost sincerity, I know less about the following than I
do about what Proust called the greatest painting in the world, the View of
Delft by Vermmer.  Check it out.

https://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-collection/artworks/92-view-of-delft/

Again, this is in SBCL on my $100 Lenovo Chromebook.

* (disassemble 'foo-with-declare)
; disassembly for FOO-WITH-DECLARE
; Size: 60 bytes. Origin: #x52A4AF19                          ;
FOO-WITH-DECLARE
; 19:       4883EC10         SUB RSP, 16
; 1D:       BA14000000       MOV EDX, 20
; 22:       B904000000       MOV ECX, 4
; 27:       48892C24         MOV [RSP], RBP
; 2B:       488BEC           MOV RBP, RSP
; 2E:       B842BD3550       MOV EAX, #x5035BD42              ; #<FDEFN
EXPT>
; 33:       FFD0             CALL RAX
; 35:       31C0             XOR EAX, EAX
; 37:       31C9             XOR ECX, ECX
; 39:       EB0C             JMP L1
; 3B:       0F1F440000       NOP
; 40: L0:   4801C1           ADD RCX, RAX
; 43:       4883C002         ADD RAX, 2
; 47: L1:   4839D0           CMP RAX, RDX
; 4A:       7EF4             JLE L0
; 4C:       488BD1           MOV RDX, RCX
; 4F:       488BE5           MOV RSP, RBP
; 52:       F8               CLC
; 53:       5D               POP RBP
; 54:       C3               RET
NIL
*

Bob


On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 4:25 PM Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer@gmail.com>
wrote:

> And you should know what DECLARE and THE do for AREF.  All the difference
> in the world, and I will give you a simple demo if you wish.
>
> Bob
>
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 4:19 PM Robert Boyer <robertstephenboyer@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> This message is about how important DECLARE and THE are.  If you do not
>> handle DECLARE and THE right, people will laugh at native-compile.
>>
>> Here is an SBCL transcript.  I am running on a $100 Lenovo Chromebook.
>>
>> I got SBCL with the command sudo apt-get install sbcl.
>>
>> * (declaim (optimize (safety 0) (speed 3) (debug 0)))
>> NIL
>> * (defun foo-with-declare (n)
>>   (let ((i 0)
>>         (sum 0)
>>         (max (expt 10 n)))
>>     (declare (fixnum i sum max))
>>     (loop (cond ((<= i max)
>>                  (setq sum (the fixnum (+ sum i))))
>>                 (t (return sum)))
>>           (incf i))))
>> FOO-WITH-DECLARE
>> * (time (foo-with-declare 8))
>> Evaluation took:
>>   0.125 seconds of real time
>>   0.123203 seconds of total run time (0.123193 user, 0.000010 system)
>>   98.40% CPU
>>   135,905,516 processor cycles
>>   0 bytes consed
>> 5000000050000000
>> * (defun foo-without-declare (n)
>>   (let ((i 0)
>>         (sum 0)
>>         (max (expt 10 n)))
>>     (loop (cond ((<= i max)
>>                  (setq sum (+ sum i)))
>>                 (t (return sum)))
>>           (incf i))))
>> WARNING: redefining COMMON-LISP-USER::FOO-WITHOUT-DECLARE in DEFUN
>> FOO-WITHOUT-DECLARE
>> * (time (foo-without-declare 8))
>> Evaluation took:
>>   1.080 seconds of real time
>>   1.072932 seconds of total run time (1.072932 user, 0.000000 system)
>>   99.35% CPU
>>   1,181,369,303 processor cycles
>>   0 bytes consed
>> 5000000050000000
>>
>> People go wow about 8X.  How does native-compile do?
>>
>> There is a great song by Alabama 'If you gonna play in Texas, you gotta
>> have a fiddle in the band'. Check it out!
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6r4E514nJg
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 3:28 PM Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 18 2024, Robert Boyer wrote:
>>>
>>> > Furthermore, such declare forms are necessary for life as we know it
>>> > in the free world, so that fixnum arithmetic can be used where
>>> > appropriate!
>>>
>>> If you are programming in Emacs Lisp, you need to follow the rules of
>>> Emacs Lisp.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
>>> GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510  2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1
>>> "And now for something completely different."
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Anything I seem to state should be taken as a question.  I am at least 77
>> and feeble.
>>
>
>
> --
> Anything I seem to state should be taken as a question.  I am at least 77
> and feeble.
>


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Anything I seem to state should be taken as a question.  I am at least 77
and feeble.

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