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Damien George	c49d5207e9	py/persistentcode: Remove unicode feature flag from .mpy file. Prior to this commit, even with unicode disabled .py and .mpy files could contain unicode characters, eg by entering them directly in a string as utf-8 encoded. The only thing the compiler disallowed (with unicode disabled) was using \uxxxx and \Uxxxxxxxx notation to specify a character within a string with value >= 0x100; that would give a SyntaxError. With this change mpy-cross will now accept \u and \U notation to insert a character with value >= 0x100 into a string (because the -mno-unicode option is now gone, there's no way to forbid this). The runtime will happily work with strings with such characters, just like it already works with strings with characters that were utf-8 encoded directly. This change simplifies things because there are no longer any feature flags in .mpy files, and any bytecode .mpy will now run on any target. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>	3 years ago
Damien George	2ed4f7a130	tools/mpy_ld.py: Remove obsolete QSTR_WINDOW_SIZE constant. This was made obsolete in `f2040bfc7e` Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>	3 years ago
Damien George	f2040bfc7e	py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. Background: .mpy files are precompiled .py files, built using mpy-cross, that contain compiled bytecode functions (and can also contain machine code). The benefit of using an .mpy file over a .py file is that they are faster to import and take less memory when importing. They are also smaller on disk. But the real benefit of .mpy files comes when they are frozen into the firmware. This is done by loading the .mpy file during compilation of the firmware and turning it into a set of big C data structures (the job of mpy-tool.py), which are then compiled and downloaded into the ROM of a device. These C data structures can be executed in-place, ie directly from ROM. This makes importing even faster because there is very little to do, and also means such frozen modules take up much less RAM (because their bytecode stays in ROM). The downside of frozen code is that it requires recompiling and reflashing the entire firmware. This can be a big barrier to entry, slows down development time, and makes it harder to do OTA updates of frozen code (because the whole firmware must be updated). This commit attempts to solve this problem by providing a solution that sits between loading .mpy files into RAM and freezing them into the firmware. The .mpy file format has been reworked so that it consists of data and bytecode which is mostly static and ready to run in-place. If these new .mpy files are located in flash/ROM which is memory addressable, the .mpy file can be executed (mostly) in-place. With this approach there is still a small amount of unpacking and linking of the .mpy file that needs to be done when it's imported, but it's still much better than loading an .mpy from disk into RAM (although not as good as freezing .mpy files into the firmware). The main trick to make static .mpy files is to adjust the bytecode so any qstrs that it references now go through a lookup table to convert from local qstr number in the module to global qstr number in the firmware. That means the bytecode does not need linking/rewriting of qstrs when it's loaded. Instead only a small qstr table needs to be built (and put in RAM) at import time. This means the bytecode itself is static/constant and can be used directly if it's in addressable memory. Also the qstr string data in the .mpy file, and some constant object data, can be used directly. Note that the qstr table is global to the module (ie not per function). In more detail, in the VM what used to be (schematically): qst = DECODE_QSTR_VALUE; is now (schematically): idx = DECODE_QSTR_INDEX; qst = qstr_table[idx]; That allows the bytecode to be fixed at compile time and not need relinking/rewriting of the qstr values. Only qstr_table needs to be linked when the .mpy is loaded. Incidentally, this helps to reduce the size of bytecode because what used to be 2-byte qstr values in the bytecode are now (mostly) 1-byte indices. If the module uses the same qstr more than two times then the bytecode is smaller than before. The following changes are measured for this commit compared to the previous (the baseline): - average 7%-9% reduction in size of .mpy files - frozen code size is reduced by about 5%-7% - importing .py files uses about 5% less RAM in total - importing .mpy files uses about 4% less RAM in total - importing .py and .mpy files takes about the same time as before The qstr indirection in the bytecode has only a small impact on VM performance. For stm32 on PYBv1.0 the performance change of this commit is: diff of scores (higher is better) N=100 M=100 baseline -> this-commit diff diff% (error%) bm_chaos.py 371.07 -> 357.39 : -13.68 = -3.687% (+/-0.02%) bm_fannkuch.py 78.72 -> 77.49 : -1.23 = -1.563% (+/-0.01%) bm_fft.py 2591.73 -> 2539.28 : -52.45 = -2.024% (+/-0.00%) bm_float.py 6034.93 -> 5908.30 : -126.63 = -2.098% (+/-0.01%) bm_hexiom.py 48.96 -> 47.93 : -1.03 = -2.104% (+/-0.00%) bm_nqueens.py 4510.63 -> 4459.94 : -50.69 = -1.124% (+/-0.00%) bm_pidigits.py 650.28 -> 644.96 : -5.32 = -0.818% (+/-0.23%) core_import_mpy_multi.py 564.77 -> 581.49 : +16.72 = +2.960% (+/-0.01%) core_import_mpy_single.py 68.67 -> 67.16 : -1.51 = -2.199% (+/-0.01%) core_qstr.py 64.16 -> 64.12 : -0.04 = -0.062% (+/-0.00%) core_yield_from.py 362.58 -> 354.50 : -8.08 = -2.228% (+/-0.00%) misc_aes.py 429.69 -> 405.59 : -24.10 = -5.609% (+/-0.01%) misc_mandel.py 3485.13 -> 3416.51 : -68.62 = -1.969% (+/-0.00%) misc_pystone.py 2496.53 -> 2405.56 : -90.97 = -3.644% (+/-0.01%) misc_raytrace.py 381.47 -> 374.01 : -7.46 = -1.956% (+/-0.01%) viper_call0.py 576.73 -> 572.49 : -4.24 = -0.735% (+/-0.04%) viper_call1a.py 550.37 -> 546.21 : -4.16 = -0.756% (+/-0.09%) viper_call1b.py 438.23 -> 435.68 : -2.55 = -0.582% (+/-0.06%) viper_call1c.py 442.84 -> 440.04 : -2.80 = -0.632% (+/-0.08%) viper_call2a.py 536.31 -> 532.35 : -3.96 = -0.738% (+/-0.06%) viper_call2b.py 382.34 -> 377.07 : -5.27 = -1.378% (+/-0.03%) And for unix on x64: diff of scores (higher is better) N=2000 M=2000 baseline -> this-commit diff diff% (error%) bm_chaos.py 13594.20 -> 13073.84 : -520.36 = -3.828% (+/-5.44%) bm_fannkuch.py 60.63 -> 59.58 : -1.05 = -1.732% (+/-3.01%) bm_fft.py 112009.15 -> 111603.32 : -405.83 = -0.362% (+/-4.03%) bm_float.py 246202.55 -> 247923.81 : +1721.26 = +0.699% (+/-2.79%) bm_hexiom.py 615.65 -> 617.21 : +1.56 = +0.253% (+/-1.64%) bm_nqueens.py 215807.95 -> 215600.96 : -206.99 = -0.096% (+/-3.52%) bm_pidigits.py 8246.74 -> 8422.82 : +176.08 = +2.135% (+/-3.64%) misc_aes.py 16133.00 -> 16452.74 : +319.74 = +1.982% (+/-1.50%) misc_mandel.py 128146.69 -> 130796.43 : +2649.74 = +2.068% (+/-3.18%) misc_pystone.py 83811.49 -> 83124.85 : -686.64 = -0.819% (+/-1.03%) misc_raytrace.py 21688.02 -> 21385.10 : -302.92 = -1.397% (+/-3.20%) The code size change is (firmware with a lot of frozen code benefits the most): bare-arm: +396 +0.697% minimal x86: +1595 +0.979% [incl +32(data)] unix x64: +2408 +0.470% [incl +800(data)] unix nanbox: +1396 +0.309% [incl -96(data)] stm32: -1256 -0.318% PYBV10 cc3200: +288 +0.157% esp8266: -260 -0.037% GENERIC esp32: -216 -0.014% GENERIC[incl -1072(data)] nrf: +116 +0.067% pca10040 rp2: -664 -0.135% PICO samd: +844 +0.607% ADAFRUIT_ITSYBITSY_M4_EXPRESS As part of this change the .mpy file format version is bumped to version 6. And mpy-tool.py has been improved to provide a good visualisation of the contents of .mpy files. In summary: this commit changes the bytecode to use qstr indirection, and reworks the .mpy file format to be simpler and allow .mpy files to be executed in-place. Performance is not impacted too much. Eventually it will be possible to store such .mpy files in a linear, read-only, memory- mappable filesystem so they can be executed from flash/ROM. This will essentially be able to replace frozen code for most applications. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>	3 years ago
Jim Mussared	b326edf68c	all: Remove MICROPY_OPT_CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE. This commit removes all parts of code associated with the existing MICROPY_OPT_CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE optimisation option, including the -mcache-lookup-bc option to mpy-cross. This feature originally provided a significant performance boost for Unix, but wasn't able to be enabled for MCU targets (due to frozen bytecode), and added significant extra complexity to generating and distributing .mpy files. The equivalent performance gain is now provided by the combination of MICROPY_OPT_LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and MICROPY_OPT_MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE (which has been enabled on the unix port in the previous commit). It's hard to provide precise performance numbers, but tests have been run on a wide variety of architectures (x86-64, ARM Cortex, Aarch64, RISC-V, xtensa) and they all generally agree on the qualitative improvements seen by the combination of MICROPY_OPT_LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and MICROPY_OPT_MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE. For example, on a "quiet" Linux x64 environment (i3-5010U @ 2.10GHz) the change from CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE, to LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH combined with MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE is: diff of scores (higher is better) N=2000 M=2000 bccache -> attrmapcache diff diff% (error%) bm_chaos.py 13742.56 -> 13905.67 : +163.11 = +1.187% (+/-3.75%) bm_fannkuch.py 60.13 -> 61.34 : +1.21 = +2.012% (+/-2.11%) bm_fft.py 113083.20 -> 114793.68 : +1710.48 = +1.513% (+/-1.57%) bm_float.py 256552.80 -> 243908.29 : -12644.51 = -4.929% (+/-1.90%) bm_hexiom.py 521.93 -> 625.41 : +103.48 = +19.826% (+/-0.40%) bm_nqueens.py 197544.25 -> 217713.12 : +20168.87 = +10.210% (+/-3.01%) bm_pidigits.py 8072.98 -> 8198.75 : +125.77 = +1.558% (+/-3.22%) misc_aes.py 17283.45 -> 16480.52 : -802.93 = -4.646% (+/-0.82%) misc_mandel.py 99083.99 -> 128939.84 : +29855.85 = +30.132% (+/-5.88%) misc_pystone.py 83860.10 -> 82592.56 : -1267.54 = -1.511% (+/-2.27%) misc_raytrace.py 21490.40 -> 22227.23 : +736.83 = +3.429% (+/-1.88%) This shows that the new optimisations are at least as good as the existing inline-bytecode-caching, and are sometimes much better (because the new ones apply caching to a wider variety of map lookups). The new optimisations can also benefit code generated by the native emitter, because they apply to the runtime rather than the generated code. The improvement for the native emitter when LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE are enabled is (same Linux environment as above): diff of scores (higher is better) N=2000 M=2000 native -> nat-attrmapcache diff diff% (error%) bm_chaos.py 14130.62 -> 15464.68 : +1334.06 = +9.441% (+/-7.11%) bm_fannkuch.py 74.96 -> 76.16 : +1.20 = +1.601% (+/-1.80%) bm_fft.py 166682.99 -> 168221.86 : +1538.87 = +0.923% (+/-4.20%) bm_float.py 233415.23 -> 265524.90 : +32109.67 = +13.756% (+/-2.57%) bm_hexiom.py 628.59 -> 734.17 : +105.58 = +16.796% (+/-1.39%) bm_nqueens.py 225418.44 -> 232926.45 : +7508.01 = +3.331% (+/-3.10%) bm_pidigits.py 6322.00 -> 6379.52 : +57.52 = +0.910% (+/-5.62%) misc_aes.py 20670.10 -> 27223.18 : +6553.08 = +31.703% (+/-1.56%) misc_mandel.py 138221.11 -> 152014.01 : +13792.90 = +9.979% (+/-2.46%) misc_pystone.py 85032.14 -> 105681.44 : +20649.30 = +24.284% (+/-2.25%) misc_raytrace.py 19800.01 -> 23350.73 : +3550.72 = +17.933% (+/-2.79%) In summary, compared to MICROPY_OPT_CACHE_MAP_LOOKUP_IN_BYTECODE, the new MICROPY_OPT_LOAD_ATTR_FAST_PATH and MICROPY_OPT_MAP_LOOKUP_CACHE options: - are simpler; - take less code size; - are faster (generally); - work with code generated by the native emitter; - can be used on embedded targets with a small and constant RAM overhead; - allow the same .mpy bytecode to run on all targets. See #7680 for further discussion. And see also #7653 for a discussion about simplifying mpy-cross options. Signed-off-by: Jim Mussared <jim.mussared@gmail.com>	3 years ago
Damien George	04927dfaca	tools/mpy_ld.py: Support R_X86_64_GOTPCREL reloc for x86-64 arch. This can be treated by the linker the same as R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX, according to https://reviews.llvm.org/D18301. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>	4 years ago
Damien George	06659077a8	all: Update Python code to conform to latest black formatting. Updating to Black v20.8b1 there are two changes that affect the code in this repository: - If there is a trailing comma in a list (eg [], () or function call) then that list is now written out with one line per element. So remove such trailing commas where the list should stay on one line. - Spaces at the start of """ doc strings are removed. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>	4 years ago
Damien George	69661f3343	all: Reformat C and Python source code with tools/codeformat.py. This is run with uncrustify 0.70.1, and black 19.10b0.	5 years ago
Damien George	0bd7d1f7f0	py/persistentcode: Move loading of rodata/bss to before obj/raw-code. This makes the loading of viper-code-with-relocations a bit neater and easier to understand, by treating the rodata/bss like a special object to be loaded into the constant table (which is how it behaves).	5 years ago
Damien George	abc642973d	py/dynruntime: Add support for float API to make/get floats. We don't want to add a feature flag to .mpy files that indicate float support because it will get complex and difficult to use. Instead the .mpy is built using whatever precision it chooses (float or double) and the native glue API will convert between this choice and what the host runtime actually uses.	5 years ago
Damien George	aad79adab7	tools/mpy_ld.py: Add new mpy_ld.py tool and associated build files. This commit adds a new tool called mpy_ld.py which is essentially a linker that builds .mpy files directly from .o files. A new header file (dynruntime.h) and makefile fragment (dynruntime.mk) are also included which allow building .mpy files from C source code. Such .mpy files can then be dynamically imported as though they were a normal Python module, even though they are implemented in C. Converting .o files directly (rather than pre-linked .elf files) allows the resulting .mpy to be more efficient because it has more control over the relocations; for example it can skip PLT indirection. Doing it this way also allows supporting more architectures, such as Xtensa which has specific needs for position-independent code and the GOT. The tool supports targets of x86, x86-64, ARM Thumb and Xtensa (windowed and non-windowed). BSS, text and rodata sections are supported, with relocations to all internal sections and symbols, as well as relocations to some external symbols (defined by dynruntime.h), and linking of qstrs.	5 years ago