Started at 349,880,038 allocations and 42s
- Switched to making `Symbol` in GOOS be a "fixed type", just a wrapper
around a `const char*` pointing to the string in the symbol table. This
is a step toward making a lot of things better, but by itself not a huge
improvement. Some things may be worse due to more temp `std::string`
allocations, but one day all these can be removed. On linux it saved
allocations (347,685,429), and saved a second or two (41 s).
- cache `#t` and `#f` in interpreter, better lookup for special
forms/builtins (hashtable of pointers instead of strings, vector for the
small special form list). Dropped time to 38s.
- special-case in quasiquote when splicing is the last thing in a list.
Allocation dropped to 340,603,082
- custom hash table for environment lookups (lexical vars). Dropped to
36s and 314,637,194
- less allocation in `read_list` 311,613,616. Time about the same.
- `let` and `let*` in Interpreter.cpp 191,988,083, time down to 28s.
Previously, `object` and `none` were both top-level types. This made
decompilation rather messy as they have no LCA and resulted in a lot of
variables coming out as type `none` which is very very wrong and
additionally there were plenty of casts to `object`. This changes it so
`none` becomes a child of `object` (it is still represented by
`NullType` which remains unusable in compilation).
This change makes `object` the sole top-level type, and the type that
can represent *any* GOAL object. I believe this matches the original
GOAL built-in type structure. A function that has a return type of
`object` can now return an integer or a `none` at the same time.
However, keep in mind that the return value of `(none)` is still
undefined, just as before. This also makes a cast to `object`
meaningless in 90% of the situations it showed up in (as every single
thing is already an `object`) and the decompiler will no longer emit
them. Casts to `none` are also reduced. Yay!
Additionally, state handlers also don't get the final `(none)` printed
out anymore. The return type of a state handler is completely
meaningless outside the event handler (which is return type `object`
anyway) so there are no limitations on what the last form needs to be. I
did this instead of making them return `object` to trick the decompiler
into not trying to output a variable to be used as a return value
(internally, in the decompiler they still have return type `none`, but
they have `object` elsewhere).
Fixes#1703Fixes#830Fixes#928
* begin work on vf support
* split reg kind into reg hw kind and class, use class for ireg
* try test
* clang format
* add some more ops and some example functions
* better lvf on statics
* add documentation
* start cleanup
* fix typos
* fix syntax highlighting in doc
* lots of documentation updates
* clean and add tests
* more documentation and more error messages
* more document and try building kernel differently
