[fasmg] irpv too slow

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MaoKo

Joined: 07 May 2019
Posts: 95
Location: Paris/French

MaoKo

Hello. In an irpv block, when your redefine the the target variable directly without indirection it's take twice or plus the initial time. On my machine, it's around 30 seconds.

Code:

A equ $01
repeat $10000
  irpv _, A
    redefine A _
  end irpv
end repeat

I don't know if it's a bug or not. If fasmg look ahead before the execution of irpv block to see if the target variable is edit, and if it's the case, the linked list associated with the target is copied, in such case I can understand the time consumption.
But with an indirection, everything goes in order.

Code:

A equ $01
macro __update? _?
  redefine A _
end macro
repeat $10000
  irpv _, A
    __update
  end irpv
end repeat

Hope this might help. Sorry for my english too. : )

21 Nov 2019, 14:53

Tomasz Grysztar

Joined: 16 Jun 2003
Posts: 7889
Location: Kraków, Poland

Tomasz Grysztar

Thank you! This looks like it might be a bug of some sort, I need to investigate closely.

21 Nov 2019, 15:39

MaoKo

Joined: 07 May 2019
Posts: 95
Location: Paris/French

MaoKo

You're welcome : )

21 Nov 2019, 15:43

Tomasz Grysztar

Joined: 16 Jun 2003
Posts: 7889
Location: Kraków, Poland

Tomasz Grysztar

I found what has been causing the problem. Please try release iqvlf.

21 Nov 2019, 16:51

MaoKo

Joined: 07 May 2019
Posts: 95
Location: Paris/French

MaoKo

Thx Tomasz it's work fine. But there is one thing that I can't understand and it's very weird.
Maybe I wrong, but probably there is a small issue with the time and unconditional macro expansion.
With this code:

Code:

macro __private?
end macro
macro abc?
        repeat $10
                if (1)
                esc __private
                else
                esc __private
                end if
        end repeat
end macro
repeat $20000
        abc
end repeat

Are we agree that normally with or without the ! in __private the macro abc is the same? However the time spent is not.
If I remove the "else", everything becomes normal again. I think that there is a thing with else. Whatever the else come from (match,rmatch) this is the same.
I don't known. It's seem nothing, (about 2 sec) but with some case it's about a diff of 10 sec or plus.
I hope Tomasz you can enlighten me : ).

22 Nov 2019, 02:37

Tomasz Grysztar

Joined: 16 Jun 2003
Posts: 7889
Location: Kraków, Poland

Tomasz Grysztar

MaoKo wrote:

Are we agree that normally with or without the ! in __private the macro abc is the same? However the time spent is not.

No, it's not the same. When __private macro is unconditional, it is evaluated even in the skipped ELSE block and this is what makes the difference (and your ESC only suppresses evaluation while the macro is being defined, by the time the macro is called and IF interpreted, there is no longer ESC there).
In general, unconditional macros are certainly bad for performance, because they are evaluated everywhere. That's what they do.

PS. I don't know if this could be applied to your specific case, but you could suppress the unconditional evaluation in the ELSE block by hiding it in a normal, "conditional" macro:

Code:

macro __private?!
end macro

macro hidden
        esc __private
end macro

macro abc?
        repeat $10
                if (1)
                        esc __private
                else
                        hidden
                end if
        end repeat
end macro
repeat $20000
        abc
end repeat

22 Nov 2019, 06:06

MaoKo

Joined: 07 May 2019
Posts: 95
Location: Paris/French

MaoKo

Yes, I'm sorry. When writing this macro, I have totally forgot the expansion of "!" macro in else block Sad

.
I try to optimize as fast as possible my irps macro with different implementation. I hope I can gain few second with this.
Thx.

23 Nov 2019, 20:27

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