Monday, July 26, 2010
PyPy GSoC: Nearing the merge to trunk
After some discussion with the core PyPy developers, it's been decided that the 64-bit backend will be merged as soon as possible, with only Boehm GC support. After the merge, I will continue work on asmgcc-64 to provide further speed improvements.
The x86-64-jit-backend branch is keep fairly close to trunk, so I thought the merge would be fairly trivial. Unfortunately, I spent the morning tracking down what turned out to be simple bug in the tests themselves, and the afternoon investigating a regression involving the 32-bit hybrid GC support, which I am still working on. However, I am confident that I will be able fix the regression and complete the merge this week. (knocks on wood)
Monday, July 19, 2010
PyPy GSoC: asmgcc update
Apologizes for my lapse in updates. And thanks the people who bugged me on IRC for a status update. :)
I spent some time familiarizing myself with the purpose and implementation of trackgcroot.py, then started working on porting it to support the 64-bit instruction set, which has been fairly straightforward.
Currently I am using the asmgcc test suite to iterate through the "run tests -> investigate failure -> fix bug -> repeat" cycle. Once I have 64-bit asmgcc working, I want to eliminate some code duplication that has crept into my codebase. I expect to be working on asmgcc-64 for the rest of this week at the least.
Friday, July 02, 2010
PyPy GSoC: 64-bit JIT working, but GC is slow
Finally, I have a working 64-bit JIT in my branch, although only with the slow Boehm garbage collector.
Next week, I will start work on adding 64-bit support to the asmgcc root finding strategy in order to make use of one of PyPy's faster, preferred garbage collectors.
