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Feature #20429

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Emit a performance warning when specially optimized core methods are redefined

Added by byroot (Jean Boussier) 7 months ago. Updated 7 months ago.

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Closed
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Target version:
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[ruby-core:117523]

Description

MRI has a number of core methods with special handling in the interpreter and both JITs that if they are redefined negatively impact Ruby performance.

The methods currently are (I may be missing a few):

  • Integer: #+, #-, #*, #/, #%, #<, #>, #<=, #>=
  • Float: #+, #-, #*, #/, #<, #>, #<=, #>=
  • String: #freeze, #size, #length, #empty?, #+, #succ, #%, #-@
  • Array: #size, #length, #empty?, #hash
  • Hash: #size, #length, #empty?, #[], #[]=

Noticing that a dependency do redefine one of these methods can be non-trivial, so I'd like to emit a :performance warning when it happens.

I can't really think of much reasons to redefine these aside from fun hacks, so I believe discouraging it would be valuable.

Patch: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/10532

Actions #1

Updated by byroot (Jean Boussier) 7 months ago

  • Description updated (diff)

Updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze) 7 months ago

+1, great idea.
I will likely do the same in TruffleRuby (there is already a way to find out via --engine.TraceAssumptions but that's more general and less user-friendly).

Actions #3

Updated by byroot (Jean Boussier) 7 months ago

  • Description updated (diff)

Updated by matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) 7 months ago

Sounds reasonable. Accepted.

Matz.

Actions #5

Updated by ko1 (Koichi Sasada) 7 months ago

  • Status changed from Open to Closed
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