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Nick Fitzgerald	d2d0a0f36b	Remove Peepmatic!!! Peepmatic was an early attempt at a DSL for peephole optimizations, with the idea that maybe sometime in the future we could user it for instruction selection as well. It didn't really pan out, however: * Peepmatic wasn't quite flexible enough, and adding new operators or snippets of code implemented externally in Rust was a bit of a pain. * The performance was never competitive with the hand-written peephole optimizers. It was very size efficient, but that came at the cost of run-time efficiency. Everything was table-based and interpreted, rather than generating any Rust code. Ultimately, because of these reasons, we never turned Peepmatic on by default. These days, we just landed the ISLE domain-specific language, and it is better suited than Peepmatic for all the things that Peepmatic was originally designed to do. It is more flexible and easy to integrate with external Rust code. It is has better time efficiency, meeting or even beating hand-written code. I think a small part of the reason why ISLE excels in these things is because its design was informed by Peepmatic's failures. I still plan on continuing Peepmatic's mission to make Cranelift's peephole optimizer passes generated from DSL rewrite rules, but using ISLE instead of Peepmatic. Thank you Peepmatic, rest in peace!	3 years ago
Alex Crichton	1ee2af0098	Remove the lightbeam backend (#3390 ) This commit removes the Lightbeam backend from Wasmtime as per [RFC 14]. This backend hasn't received maintenance in quite some time, and as [RFC 14] indicates this doesn't meet the threshold for keeping the code in-tree, so this commit removes it. A fast "baseline" compiler may still be added in the future. The addition of such a backend should be in line with [RFC 14], though, with the principles we now have for stable releases of Wasmtime. I'll close out Lightbeam-related issues once this is merged. [RFC 14]: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rfcs/pull/14	3 years ago
Benjamin Bouvier	aa2c0cd0ec	CI: put tests into a separate script so they can be run externally (#2956 )	3 years ago

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Nick Fitzgerald

d2d0a0f36b

Remove Peepmatic!!!

Peepmatic was an early attempt at a DSL for peephole optimizations, with the
idea that maybe sometime in the future we could user it for instruction
selection as well. It didn't really pan out, however:

* Peepmatic wasn't quite flexible enough, and adding new operators or snippets
  of code implemented externally in Rust was a bit of a pain.

* The performance was never competitive with the hand-written peephole
  optimizers. It was *very* size efficient, but that came at the cost of
  run-time efficiency. Everything was table-based and interpreted, rather than
  generating any Rust code.

Ultimately, because of these reasons, we never turned Peepmatic on by default.

These days, we just landed the ISLE domain-specific language, and it is better
suited than Peepmatic for all the things that Peepmatic was originally designed
to do. It is more flexible and easy to integrate with external Rust code. It is
has better time efficiency, meeting or even beating hand-written code. I think a
small part of the reason why ISLE excels in these things is because its design
was informed by Peepmatic's failures. I still plan on continuing Peepmatic's
mission to make Cranelift's peephole optimizer passes generated from DSL rewrite
rules, but using ISLE instead of Peepmatic.

Thank you Peepmatic, rest in peace!

3 years ago

Alex Crichton

1ee2af0098

Remove the lightbeam backend (#3390 )

This commit removes the Lightbeam backend from Wasmtime as per [RFC 14].
This backend hasn't received maintenance in quite some time, and as [RFC
14] indicates this doesn't meet the threshold for keeping the code
in-tree, so this commit removes it.

A fast "baseline" compiler may still be added in the future. The
addition of such a backend should be in line with [RFC 14], though, with
the principles we now have for stable releases of Wasmtime. I'll close
out Lightbeam-related issues once this is merged.

[RFC 14]: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rfcs/pull/14

3 years ago

Benjamin Bouvier

aa2c0cd0ec

CI: put tests into a separate script so they can be run externally (#2956 )

3 years ago

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