Re: Add more supported primitives in libgccjit IR

[Ihor Radchenko]

Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> writes:

> Yes the native compiler does value-type inference already (this is how
> the return type of functions is computed as well).

Thanks for the confirmation!

Do I understand correctly that value-type inference is still extremely
limited? I am confused about native compilation results for

(defun test1 ()
  (let ((x (list 'a 'b 'c)))
    (when (listp x) "Return value")))

(see <https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/87pm3gfxgi.fsf@localhost/>)

> Yes the backend tries to inline some code when possible (ex
> define_add1_sub1).
>
> Yes we could add more of this inlining, the infrastructure is already
> there but I personally had no time to work on this :(

Do you have any comment on the problem with having multiple parallel
implementations of the same subroutine?

> If someone is interested on working on some of those points (or other
> areas of the native compiler) I'm happy to provided help as much as I
> can.

Is there any detailed information about the format of native compile
debug output?

I tried

(defun test1 ()
  (let ((x (list 'a 'b 'c)))
    (when (listp x) "Return value")))
(setq native-comp-debug 3)
(setq native-comp-verbose 3)
(native-compile #'test1 "/tmp/test1.eln")

but it is not very clear what exactly is going on there.

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