Integer constant folding in the presence of new primops

[Nicolas Frisby]

I'm also seeing performance regressions in the shootout benchmarks that I
can't identify in the asm. The new asm looks better but performs worse,
with a ~15% slowdown.

I fired up the performance counters in my CPU and the free Intel code for
inspecting them showed that my CPU utilization took about a 10% hit, even
while executing fewer total instructions.

  1) Jan, perhaps we're seeing the same sort of behavior — the shootout
benchmarks have extremely hot loops (hundreds of millions of iterations
IIRC). I used ticky profiling too, and saw no suspicious changes in any
counters.

  2) Dear Low-level Gurus: How feasible is it that a ~15% slowdown in a
program with a very hot loop is due to incidentally inhibiting some caching
behavior (instr? data?)? Or perhaps effecting alignment? FTR my CPU is a
Core i7-2620M, Sandy Bridge.

Thanks all.

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Jan Stolarek <jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl>wrote:

> > If it's not sorted out, can you open a ticket, put in the relevant info
> (so
> > we don't need to look at the email trail), and we can tackle it when you
> > get here.
> Currently there's a temporary workaround: I'm using new folding rules for
> all primitive types,
> except for Integer, in which case I left the old folding rules unchanged.
> This of course should
> be modified to make all rules uniform, but for now it at least passes
> validation. I didn't fill
> the ticket, because the bug does not exist yet :) It only manifests itself
> in my patches, which
> have not been applied yet. I'll add all the information from this
> discussion to my github fork of
> GHC and then move it to Trac once the bug makes it to HEAD.
>
> What worries me more about my patches is the performance regression in
> kahan, because I see no
> obvious differences in the generated assembly.
>
> Janek
>
> >
> > Simon
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org]
> On
> > Behalf Of Jan Stolarek Sent: 20 May 2013 12:35
> > To: Ian Lynagh
> > Cc: ghc-devs at haskell.org
> > Subject: Re: Integer constant folding in the presence of new primops
> >
> > > If you remove everything but the quotInteger test from
> > > integerConstantFolding and compile with -ddump-rule-rewrites then
> > > you'll see that the eqInteger rule fires before quotInteger. This is
> > > presumably comparing against 0, as the definition of quot for Integer
> > > (in GHC.Real) is
> > >     _ `quot` 0 = divZeroError
> > >     n `quot` d = n `quotInteger` d
> >
> > Yes, I noticed these two rules firing together - perhaps that's the
> > explanation why. I created a small program for testing:
> >
> > main = print quotInt
> > quotInt :: Integer
> > quotInt = 100063 `quot` 156
> >
> > I noticed that when I define eqInteger wrapper to be NOINLINE, the call
> to
> > quot is translated to Core as:
> >
> > Main.quotInt =
> >   GHC.Real.$fIntegralInteger_$cquot
> >     (__integer 100063) (__integer 156)
> >
> > but when I change the wrapper to INLINE I get:
> >
> > Main.quotInt =
> >   GHC.Real.$fNumRatio_$cquot             <-------- NumRatio instead of
> > IntegralInteger (__integer 100063) (__integer 156)
> >
> > All rule firing happens later (I used -ddump-simpl-iterations
> > -ddump-rule-firings), except that for $fNumRatio_$cquot the quot rules
> > don't fire.
> >
> > > Do you also still have eqInteger wired in? It sounds like you might
> > > have given them both the same unique?
> >
> > No, they didn't have the same unique. I modified the existing rules to
> work
> > on the new primops and ignore their wrappers. At the moment I reverted
> > these changes so that I can make progress and leave this problem for
> later.
> >
> > Janek
> >
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