2015/04/15

DISCLAIMER: These notes are from the defunct k8 project which precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26! The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it.

00:06

I should have enough code right now to start work on the Allocator again as I have improved information about the CPU and such. So it could work out well. I do know that I need to have preserved (saved) and volatile registers for exception handling.

00:12

I do know for the past month or so my codebase has improved much in general. Bits of it are mature now.

15:28

I can assign registers myself, such as which ones become the stack and which become the thread storage area (system control). Only two are really required, the rest of the set of registers can be used freely.

19:32

Wrote some Allocator code, but I am going to have to handle stuff such as general purpose and the main usage of a register. The only ones to be allocated would be general purpose for the most part.

20:15

Thinking that to increase my build times, I can move some of the NARF code related to JAR files away into their own package. That way when I clear the dynarec I do not have to recompile that stuff every time.

20:34

Now doing it that way, compilation is now much faster on this bit sluggish system. I shaved off about 30 to 40 seconds, which is good. Perhaps something else I can split off is the Form code, although that most likely depends on dyna-rec bits and there would be an ugly cross-dependency issue. Looking at grep the only two classes are FormCodeProfile and FormCodeBank which reference stuff in the narf package. It may be possible to change the code around a bit so that I can have the dynarec depend on a base form code.

20:51

No, the form stuff is too intertwined with narf so it cannot be done.

20:56

Well at least I cut the time it takes in half, so that is a good thing.

21:12

Another possibility is to split off some things and have a core dynarec and a one where all the translation code goes.

22:01

So now with the dynarec split between narf and poit, it is much faster to compile the bits that I want to compile now. On a fresh hairball build it took 28 seconds. But using a pre-cached one it took 15 seconds. So now that I split the stuff up, I went from a minute down to 15 seconds.