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Simon Marlow authored
Change the way SRTs are represented: Previously, the SRT associated with a function or thunk would be a sub-list of the enclosing top-level function's SRT. But this approach can lead to lots of duplication: if a CAF is referenced in several different thunks, then it may appear several times in the SRT. Let-no-escapes compound the problem, because the occurrence of a let-no-escape-bound variable would expand to all the CAFs referred to by the let-no-escape. The new way is to describe the SRT associated with a function or thunk as a (pointer+offset,bitmap) pair, where the pointer+offset points into some SRT table (the enclosing function's SRT), and the bitmap indicates which entries in this table are "live" for this closure. The bitmap is stored in the 16 bits previously used for the length field, but this rarely overflows. When it does overflow, we store the bitmap externally in a new "SRT descriptor". Now the enclosing SRT can be a set, hence eliminating the duplicates. Also, we now have one SRT per top-level function in a recursive group, where previously we used to have one SRT for the whole group. This helps keep the size of SRTs down. Bottom line: very little difference most of the time. GHC itself got slightly smaller. One bad case of a module in GHC which had a huge SRT has gone away. While I was in the area: - Several parts of the back-end require bitmaps. Functions for creating bitmaps are now centralised in the Bitmap module. - We were trying to be independent of word-size in a couple of places in the back end, but we've now abandoned that strategy so I simplified things a bit.
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