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/*
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#ifndef MICROPY_INCLUDED_PY_QSTR_H
#define MICROPY_INCLUDED_PY_QSTR_H
#include "py/mpconfig.h"
#include "py/misc.h"
// See qstrdefs.h for a list of qstr's that are available as constants.
// Reference them as MP_QSTR_xxxx.
//
// Note: it would be possible to define MP_QSTR_xxx as qstr_from_str("xxx")
// for qstrs that are referenced this way, but you don't want to have them in ROM.
// first entry in enum will be MP_QSTRnull=0, which indicates invalid/no qstr
enum {
#ifndef NO_QSTR
#define QDEF(id, hash, len, str) id,
#include "genhdr/qstrdefs.generated.h"
#undef QDEF
#endif
MP_QSTRnumber_of, // no underscore so it can't clash with any of the above
};
typedef size_t qstr;
py: Rework bytecode and .mpy file format to be mostly static data. Background: .mpy files are precompiled .py files, built using mpy-cross, that contain compiled bytecode functions (and can also contain machine code). The benefit of using an .mpy file over a .py file is that they are faster to import and take less memory when importing. They are also smaller on disk. But the real benefit of .mpy files comes when they are frozen into the firmware. This is done by loading the .mpy file during compilation of the firmware and turning it into a set of big C data structures (the job of mpy-tool.py), which are then compiled and downloaded into the ROM of a device. These C data structures can be executed in-place, ie directly from ROM. This makes importing even faster because there is very little to do, and also means such frozen modules take up much less RAM (because their bytecode stays in ROM). The downside of frozen code is that it requires recompiling and reflashing the entire firmware. This can be a big barrier to entry, slows down development time, and makes it harder to do OTA updates of frozen code (because the whole firmware must be updated). This commit attempts to solve this problem by providing a solution that sits between loading .mpy files into RAM and freezing them into the firmware. The .mpy file format has been reworked so that it consists of data and bytecode which is mostly static and ready to run in-place. If these new .mpy files are located in flash/ROM which is memory addressable, the .mpy file can be executed (mostly) in-place. With this approach there is still a small amount of unpacking and linking of the .mpy file that needs to be done when it's imported, but it's still much better than loading an .mpy from disk into RAM (although not as good as freezing .mpy files into the firmware). The main trick to make static .mpy files is to adjust the bytecode so any qstrs that it references now go through a lookup table to convert from local qstr number in the module to global qstr number in the firmware. That means the bytecode does not need linking/rewriting of qstrs when it's loaded. Instead only a small qstr table needs to be built (and put in RAM) at import time. This means the bytecode itself is static/constant and can be used directly if it's in addressable memory. Also the qstr string data in the .mpy file, and some constant object data, can be used directly. Note that the qstr table is global to the module (ie not per function). In more detail, in the VM what used to be (schematically): qst = DECODE_QSTR_VALUE; is now (schematically): idx = DECODE_QSTR_INDEX; qst = qstr_table[idx]; That allows the bytecode to be fixed at compile time and not need relinking/rewriting of the qstr values. Only qstr_table needs to be linked when the .mpy is loaded. Incidentally, this helps to reduce the size of bytecode because what used to be 2-byte qstr values in the bytecode are now (mostly) 1-byte indices. If the module uses the same qstr more than two times then the bytecode is smaller than before. The following changes are measured for this commit compared to the previous (the baseline): - average 7%-9% reduction in size of .mpy files - frozen code size is reduced by about 5%-7% - importing .py files uses about 5% less RAM in total - importing .mpy files uses about 4% less RAM in total - importing .py and .mpy files takes about the same time as before The qstr indirection in the bytecode has only a small impact on VM performance. For stm32 on PYBv1.0 the performance change of this commit is: diff of scores (higher is better) N=100 M=100 baseline -> this-commit diff diff% (error%) bm_chaos.py 371.07 -> 357.39 : -13.68 = -3.687% (+/-0.02%) bm_fannkuch.py 78.72 -> 77.49 : -1.23 = -1.563% (+/-0.01%) bm_fft.py 2591.73 -> 2539.28 : -52.45 = -2.024% (+/-0.00%) bm_float.py 6034.93 -> 5908.30 : -126.63 = -2.098% (+/-0.01%) bm_hexiom.py 48.96 -> 47.93 : -1.03 = -2.104% (+/-0.00%) bm_nqueens.py 4510.63 -> 4459.94 : -50.69 = -1.124% (+/-0.00%) bm_pidigits.py 650.28 -> 644.96 : -5.32 = -0.818% (+/-0.23%) core_import_mpy_multi.py 564.77 -> 581.49 : +16.72 = +2.960% (+/-0.01%) core_import_mpy_single.py 68.67 -> 67.16 : -1.51 = -2.199% (+/-0.01%) core_qstr.py 64.16 -> 64.12 : -0.04 = -0.062% (+/-0.00%) core_yield_from.py 362.58 -> 354.50 : -8.08 = -2.228% (+/-0.00%) misc_aes.py 429.69 -> 405.59 : -24.10 = -5.609% (+/-0.01%) misc_mandel.py 3485.13 -> 3416.51 : -68.62 = -1.969% (+/-0.00%) misc_pystone.py 2496.53 -> 2405.56 : -90.97 = -3.644% (+/-0.01%) misc_raytrace.py 381.47 -> 374.01 : -7.46 = -1.956% (+/-0.01%) viper_call0.py 576.73 -> 572.49 : -4.24 = -0.735% (+/-0.04%) viper_call1a.py 550.37 -> 546.21 : -4.16 = -0.756% (+/-0.09%) viper_call1b.py 438.23 -> 435.68 : -2.55 = -0.582% (+/-0.06%) viper_call1c.py 442.84 -> 440.04 : -2.80 = -0.632% (+/-0.08%) viper_call2a.py 536.31 -> 532.35 : -3.96 = -0.738% (+/-0.06%) viper_call2b.py 382.34 -> 377.07 : -5.27 = -1.378% (+/-0.03%) And for unix on x64: diff of scores (higher is better) N=2000 M=2000 baseline -> this-commit diff diff% (error%) bm_chaos.py 13594.20 -> 13073.84 : -520.36 = -3.828% (+/-5.44%) bm_fannkuch.py 60.63 -> 59.58 : -1.05 = -1.732% (+/-3.01%) bm_fft.py 112009.15 -> 111603.32 : -405.83 = -0.362% (+/-4.03%) bm_float.py 246202.55 -> 247923.81 : +1721.26 = +0.699% (+/-2.79%) bm_hexiom.py 615.65 -> 617.21 : +1.56 = +0.253% (+/-1.64%) bm_nqueens.py 215807.95 -> 215600.96 : -206.99 = -0.096% (+/-3.52%) bm_pidigits.py 8246.74 -> 8422.82 : +176.08 = +2.135% (+/-3.64%) misc_aes.py 16133.00 -> 16452.74 : +319.74 = +1.982% (+/-1.50%) misc_mandel.py 128146.69 -> 130796.43 : +2649.74 = +2.068% (+/-3.18%) misc_pystone.py 83811.49 -> 83124.85 : -686.64 = -0.819% (+/-1.03%) misc_raytrace.py 21688.02 -> 21385.10 : -302.92 = -1.397% (+/-3.20%) The code size change is (firmware with a lot of frozen code benefits the most): bare-arm: +396 +0.697% minimal x86: +1595 +0.979% [incl +32(data)] unix x64: +2408 +0.470% [incl +800(data)] unix nanbox: +1396 +0.309% [incl -96(data)] stm32: -1256 -0.318% PYBV10 cc3200: +288 +0.157% esp8266: -260 -0.037% GENERIC esp32: -216 -0.014% GENERIC[incl -1072(data)] nrf: +116 +0.067% pca10040 rp2: -664 -0.135% PICO samd: +844 +0.607% ADAFRUIT_ITSYBITSY_M4_EXPRESS As part of this change the .mpy file format version is bumped to version 6. And mpy-tool.py has been improved to provide a good visualisation of the contents of .mpy files. In summary: this commit changes the bytecode to use qstr indirection, and reworks the .mpy file format to be simpler and allow .mpy files to be executed in-place. Performance is not impacted too much. Eventually it will be possible to store such .mpy files in a linear, read-only, memory- mappable filesystem so they can be executed from flash/ROM. This will essentially be able to replace frozen code for most applications. Signed-off-by: Damien George <damien@micropython.org>
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typedef uint16_t qstr_short_t;
#if MICROPY_QSTR_BYTES_IN_HASH == 1
typedef uint8_t qstr_hash_t;
#elif MICROPY_QSTR_BYTES_IN_HASH == 2
typedef uint16_t qstr_hash_t;
#else
#error unimplemented qstr hash decoding
#endif
#if MICROPY_QSTR_BYTES_IN_LEN == 1
typedef uint8_t qstr_len_t;
#elif MICROPY_QSTR_BYTES_IN_LEN == 2
typedef uint16_t qstr_len_t;
#else
#error unimplemented qstr length decoding
#endif
typedef struct _qstr_pool_t {
const struct _qstr_pool_t *prev;
size_t total_prev_len;
size_t alloc;
size_t len;
qstr_hash_t *hashes;
qstr_len_t *lengths;
const char *qstrs[];
} qstr_pool_t;
#define QSTR_TOTAL() (MP_STATE_VM(last_pool)->total_prev_len + MP_STATE_VM(last_pool)->len)
void qstr_init(void);
size_t qstr_compute_hash(const byte *data, size_t len);
qstr qstr_find_strn(const char *str, size_t str_len); // returns MP_QSTRnull if not found
qstr qstr_from_str(const char *str);
qstr qstr_from_strn(const char *str, size_t len);
mp_uint_t qstr_hash(qstr q);
const char *qstr_str(qstr q);
size_t qstr_len(qstr q);
const byte *qstr_data(qstr q, size_t *len);
void qstr_pool_info(size_t *n_pool, size_t *n_qstr, size_t *n_str_data_bytes, size_t *n_total_bytes);
void qstr_dump_data(void);
py: Implement "common word" compression scheme for error messages. The idea here is that there's a moderate amount of ROM used up by exception text. Obviously we try to keep the messages short, and the code can enable terse errors, but it still adds up. Listed below is the total string data size for various ports: bare-arm 2860 minimal 2876 stm32 8926 (PYBV11) cc3200 3751 esp32 5721 This commit implements compression of these strings. It takes advantage of the fact that these strings are all 7-bit ascii and extracts the top 128 frequently used words from the messages and stores them packed (dropping their null-terminator), then uses (0x80 | index) inside strings to refer to these common words. Spaces are automatically added around words, saving more bytes. This happens transparently in the build process, mirroring the steps that are used to generate the QSTR data. The MP_COMPRESSED_ROM_TEXT macro wraps any literal string that should compressed, and it's automatically decompressed in mp_decompress_rom_string. There are many schemes that could be used for the compression, and some are included in py/makecompresseddata.py for reference (space, Huffman, ngram, common word). Results showed that the common-word compression gets better results. This is before counting the increased cost of the Huffman decoder. This might be slightly counter-intuitive, but this data is extremely repetitive at a word-level, and the byte-level entropy coder can't quite exploit that as efficiently. Ideally one would combine both approaches, but for now the common-word approach is the one that is used. For additional comparison, the size of the raw data compressed with gzip and zlib is calculated, as a sort of proxy for a lower entropy bound. With this scheme we come within 15% on stm32, and 30% on bare-arm (i.e. we use x% more bytes than the data compressed with gzip -- not counting the code overhead of a decoder, and how this would be hypothetically implemented). The feature is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting MICROPY_ROM_TEXT_COMPRESSION at the Makefile-level.
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#if MICROPY_ROM_TEXT_COMPRESSION
void mp_decompress_rom_string(byte *dst, const mp_rom_error_text_t src);
py: Implement "common word" compression scheme for error messages. The idea here is that there's a moderate amount of ROM used up by exception text. Obviously we try to keep the messages short, and the code can enable terse errors, but it still adds up. Listed below is the total string data size for various ports: bare-arm 2860 minimal 2876 stm32 8926 (PYBV11) cc3200 3751 esp32 5721 This commit implements compression of these strings. It takes advantage of the fact that these strings are all 7-bit ascii and extracts the top 128 frequently used words from the messages and stores them packed (dropping their null-terminator), then uses (0x80 | index) inside strings to refer to these common words. Spaces are automatically added around words, saving more bytes. This happens transparently in the build process, mirroring the steps that are used to generate the QSTR data. The MP_COMPRESSED_ROM_TEXT macro wraps any literal string that should compressed, and it's automatically decompressed in mp_decompress_rom_string. There are many schemes that could be used for the compression, and some are included in py/makecompresseddata.py for reference (space, Huffman, ngram, common word). Results showed that the common-word compression gets better results. This is before counting the increased cost of the Huffman decoder. This might be slightly counter-intuitive, but this data is extremely repetitive at a word-level, and the byte-level entropy coder can't quite exploit that as efficiently. Ideally one would combine both approaches, but for now the common-word approach is the one that is used. For additional comparison, the size of the raw data compressed with gzip and zlib is calculated, as a sort of proxy for a lower entropy bound. With this scheme we come within 15% on stm32, and 30% on bare-arm (i.e. we use x% more bytes than the data compressed with gzip -- not counting the code overhead of a decoder, and how this would be hypothetically implemented). The feature is disabled by default and can be enabled by setting MICROPY_ROM_TEXT_COMPRESSION at the Makefile-level.
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#define MP_IS_COMPRESSED_ROM_STRING(s) (*(byte *)(s) == 0xff)
#endif
#endif // MICROPY_INCLUDED_PY_QSTR_H