Hello Hackers,
This is to address a TODO I found in the JIT expression evaluation
code (opcode =
EEOP_INNER_FETCHSOME/EEOP_OUTER_FETCHSOME/EEOP_SCAN_FETCHSOME):
* TODO: skip nvalid check if slot is fixed and known to
* be a virtual slot.
Not only should we skip the nvalid check if the tuple is virtual, the
whole basic block should be a no-op. There is no deforming to be done,
JIT (slot_compile_deform) or otherwise (slot_getsomeattrs) for virtual
tuples.
Attached is a patch 0001 that achieves exactly that by:
1. Performing the check at the very beginning of the case.
2. Emitting an unconditional branch to the next opblock if we have a
virtual tuple. We end up with a block with just the single
unconditional branch instruction in this case. This block is optimized
away when we run llvm_optimize_module().
Also enclosed is another patch 0002 that adds on some minor
refactoring of conditionals around whether to JIT deform or not.
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Soumyadeep Chakraborty
