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Feature #16505

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Improve preformance of `RubyVM::InstructionSequence#to_binary`

Added by NagayamaRyoga (Nagayama Ryoga) almost 5 years ago. Updated almost 5 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Assignee:
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Target version:
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[ruby-core:96801]

Description

Abstract

Within #to_binary, deduplication of objects output to binary is performed, but the current implementation is achieved by a linear search of an array of objects (=obj_list). (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/e288632f22b18b29efd20a1469292b0a3ba9b74c/compile.c#L9699-L9701)
On the other hand, iseq deduplication is faster because it is implemented using a hash. (https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/e288632f22b18b29efd20a1469292b0a3ba9b74c/compile.c#L9744-L9745)

This proposal speeds up object deduplication by using a hash.
This patch does not change the output binary.

Implementation

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/2835

Evaluation

Environment:

  • OS: macOS Catalina
  • CPU: Intel Core i5
  • Memory: 16GB

address_lists_parser.rb

address_lists_parser.rb(https://github.com/mikel/mail/blob/master/lib/mail/parsers/address_lists_parser.rb) in mail gem has an extremely huge array.
Call # to_binary on the iseq of this file and check its execution time and MD5 of the output binary.

The benchmark code:

require 'benchmark'
require 'digest/md5'

F = 'address_lists_parser.rb'
N = 100

iseq = RubyVM::InstructionSequence.compile_file(F)
bin = iseq.to_binary

puts "md5 hash: #{Digest::MD5.hexdigest(bin)}"

Benchmark.bm(12) do |x|
  x.report("to_binary x#{N}") {
    N.times do ||
      iseq.to_binary
    end
  }
end

  • master (ruby 2.8.0dev (2020-01-12T10:54:59Z master e288632f22) [x86_64-darwin19])

    md5 hash: fd80e7c0c8da7a9044e89139c6078137
                   user     system      total        real
to_binary x100 27.162084   0.078262  27.240346 ( 27.675089)

  • Proposal (ruby 2.8.0dev (2020-01-12T12:39:10Z improve-performanc.. e05ad5ef81) [x86_64-darwin19])

    md5 hash: fd80e7c0c8da7a9044e89139c6078137
                   user     system      total        real
to_binary x100  0.989403   0.036869   1.026272 (  1.063335)

The same binary was output before and after the change.
Execution speed is 26 times faster.

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