[webkit-dev] [jsc-dev] Proposal: Using LLInt Asm in major architectures even if JIT is disabled

[Filip Pizlo]

Most JSC development focuses on JSVALUE64.  JSVALUE32_64 is currently years behind JSVALUE64 - it has no concurrent JIT, no concurrent GC, no FTL.  We regularly do tuning that ends up affecting both JSVALUE32_64 and JSVALUE64 without even testing its impact on JSVALUE32_64.  JSVALUE32_64 is a second-class citizen in JSC.

I propose this:

- Enable cloop/JSVALUE64 to work on 32-bit.  I don’t think it does right now, but that’s probably trivial to fix.
- Switch Darwin ports to that configuration for 32-bit.
- When changes land to support new features, make it mandatory to support JSVALUE64 and optional to support JSVALUE32_64.  Such changes should include whoever volunteers to maintain JSVALUE32_64 in CC.

If you guys consider JSVALUE32_64 to be critical, then you can go ahead and maintain it.  We’ll let JSVALUE32_64 stay in the tree so long as someone is maintaining it.

-Filip


> On Sep 20, 2018, at 9:07 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com> wrote:
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> I believe Guillaume has previously established that results in a substantial performance regression for WPE. It is currently running in production on tens of millions of consumer set top boxes. I think that's substantial testing. :)
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> Michael
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