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Brendan Punsky 5a9a7e9f49 rexcode: pad arm32/arm64 Instruction back to 64 bytes and align it
Shrinking Instruction to 48 was the wrong call, and measuring it said so.

The premise was that a sub-cache-line struct touches fewer lines. It does --
but `#packed` aligns the struct to 1, so a 48-byte stride straddles a line
boundary 75% of the time, and the heap base is not line-aligned either. The
old 64-byte packed layout was worse still: 100% straddling, getting none of
the benefit its size implied.

Measured on an i7-9750H (L1d 32K/core, L2 256K, L3 12M), best-of-5, median of
3 interleaved rounds, against the 64-byte packed layout this branch started
from:

                     scan     encode     decode
  64 packed (was)   1.000x     1.000x     1.000x
  48 packed         0.909x     1.040x     1.022x
  64 align(64)      1.218x     1.034x     0.806x

Decode is ~19% faster aligned, and that holds at every working set including
ones that fit entirely in L1 -- so it is split-store cost at the store ports,
not cache-line fetches. Decode writes whole Instructions, and the aligned
stores are worth more than the 33% extra bytes they move. A fourth variant --
48 bytes with `#packed` removed -- was measured to rule out the obvious
confound, and tracked 48-packed within 0.5% everywhere, so the win is
alignment and not the loss of packing.

Encode is within a few percent throughout (it is compute-bound; the form scan
dominates), and the pure read traversal is slower, but that is a synthetic
loop and its regression is codegen, not cache -- it is present even at
L1-resident sizes where a standalone struct shows no such penalty.

The Operand and Memory work from the previous commit is what makes this
possible: a 45/48-byte payload now sits inside one line with room to spare,
where the original spent all 64 bytes. The 16-19 spare bytes cost nothing over
a straddling 48-byte struct and give new fields somewhere to land.

All 11 rexcode suites match baseline; arm64 is 73/73 byte-exact against
llvm-mc; arm32's 1680/1680 sweep passes and its encode spot-checks are
unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-27 01:13:06 -04:00

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// rexcode · Brendan Punsky (dotbmp@github), original author
package rexcode_arm32
// =============================================================================
// AArch32 INSTRUCTION
// =============================================================================
//
// Variable-length: A32 is always 4 bytes, T16 is 2 bytes, T32 is 4 bytes (two
// halfwords). The `length` field is filled in by the encoder from the matched
// Encoding entry's `bits` field via `inst_size_from_bits`.
//
// The `mode` field tells the encoder whether to dispatch to A32 or T32
// encoding entries; for VFP/NEON entries the encoder applies bit-28 swap as
// documented in encoding_types.odin.
Instruction_Flags :: bit_field u8 {
sets_flags: bool | 1, // S bit (writes APSR.NZCV)
wide: bool | 1, // force T32 wide form when both T16 + T32 exist
_: u8 | 6,
}
// Sized and aligned to a cache line -- see the note in arm64/instructions.odin.
// The payload is 48 bytes; padding out to 64 and aligning is worth ~21% on
// decode, because decode writes whole Instructions and unaligned stores are
// expensive enough to outweigh writing more bytes.
Instruction :: struct #align(64) {
ops: [4]Operand `fmt:"v,operand_count"`, // 4 * 10 = 40
mnemonic: Mnemonic, // 2
// cond, operand_count, mode, length and the two flag bits share one
// 16-bit word -- together they need 13 bits, and spending six bytes on
// them was what pushed Instruction over 48. `using` keeps inst.cond,
// inst.operand_count, inst.mode, inst.length, inst.sets_flags and
// inst.wide reading and writing exactly as they did as plain fields.
using _: bit_field u16 {
cond: u8 | 4, // 0..15 (AL = 14)
operand_count: u8 | 3, // 0..4
mode: Mode | 1, // A32 / T32
length: u8 | 3, // 2 or 4 bytes on the wire
sets_flags: bool | 1, // S bit (writes APSR.NZCV)
wide: bool | 1, // force the T32 wide form when both exist
// 3 bits spare
},
// Form-id hint: when non-zero, this is (1 + the index into
// ENCODING_TABLE[mnemonic]) of the form the decoder produced. The encoder
// uses it as a tie-breaker for the shape-ambiguous entries the data type
// does not separate on its own -- register lists, LDM/STM addressing
// modes. User-constructed instructions leave it at 0 and take the
// first shape match.
form_id: u16,
// The `.i32` / `.s32.f32` suffix. Zero (.NONE) means "unspecified": the
// encoder then takes the first form of the matching shape, which is what
// every instruction did before this field existed. Set it and the encoder
// picks the encoding for that type.
dt: Data_Types,
// Spare, and free: a 48-byte struct straddles a cache line, so these 16
// bytes cost nothing. New fields land here without changing the layout.
_: [16]u8,
}
#assert(size_of(Instruction) == 64)
#assert(align_of(Instruction) == 64)
// =============================================================================
// Builders
// =============================================================================
@(require_results)
inst_none :: #force_inline proc "contextless" (m: Mnemonic, mode: Mode = .A32) -> Instruction {
return Instruction{mnemonic = m, operand_count = 0, length = mode == .A32 ? 4 : 2, mode = mode, cond = 14}
}
// 1-operand
@(require_results)
inst_r :: #force_inline proc "contextless" (m: Mnemonic, r: Register, mode: Mode = .A32) -> Instruction {
return Instruction{mnemonic = m, operand_count = 1, length = mode == .A32 ? 4 : 4, mode = mode, cond = 14,
ops = {op_reg(r), {}, {}, {}}}
}
@(require_results)
inst_i :: #force_inline proc "contextless" (m: Mnemonic, v: i64, mode: Mode = .A32) -> Instruction {
return Instruction{mnemonic = m, operand_count = 1, length = mode == .A32 ? 4 : 4, mode = mode, cond = 14,
ops = {op_imm(v), {}, {}, {}}}
}
// 2-operand
@(require_results)
inst_r_r :: #force_inline proc "contextless" (m: Mnemonic, rd, rm: Register, mode: Mode = .A32) -> Instruction {
return Instruction{mnemonic = m, operand_count = 2, length = mode == .A32 ? 4 : 4, mode = mode, cond = 14,
ops = {op_reg(rd), op_reg(rm), {}, {}}}
}
@(require_results)
inst_r_i :: #force_inline proc "contextless" (m: Mnemonic, rd: Register, v: i64, mode: Mode = .A32) -> Instruction {
return Instruction{mnemonic = m, operand_count = 2, length = mode == .A32 ? 4 : 4, mode = mode, cond = 14,
ops = {op_reg(rd), op_imm(v), {}, {}}}
}
// 3-operand data-proc (ADD/SUB/AND/etc.)
@(require_results)
inst_r_r_r :: #force_inline proc "contextless" (m: Mnemonic, rd, rn, rm: Register, mode: Mode = .A32) -> Instruction {
return Instruction{mnemonic = m, operand_count = 3, length = mode == .A32 ? 4 : 4, mode = mode, cond = 14,
ops = {op_reg(rd), op_reg(rn), op_reg(rm), {}}}
}
@(require_results)
inst_r_r_i :: #force_inline proc "contextless" (m: Mnemonic, rd, rn: Register, v: i64, mode: Mode = .A32) -> Instruction {
return Instruction{mnemonic = m, operand_count = 3, length = mode == .A32 ? 4 : 4, mode = mode, cond = 14,
ops = {op_reg(rd), op_reg(rn), op_imm(v), {}}}
}
@(require_results)
inst_r_r_r_shifted :: #force_inline proc "contextless" (
m: Mnemonic, rd, rn, rm: Register, st: Shift_Type, amt: u8, mode: Mode = .A32,
) -> Instruction {
return Instruction{mnemonic = m, operand_count = 3, length = mode == .A32 ? 4 : 4, mode = mode, cond = 14,
ops = {op_reg(rd), op_reg(rn), op_reg_shifted(rm, st, amt), {}}}
}
// 4-operand MLA / MLS / SMLAL etc.
@(require_results)
inst_r_r_r_r :: #force_inline proc "contextless" (m: Mnemonic, rd, rn, rm, ra: Register, mode: Mode = .A32) -> Instruction {
return Instruction{mnemonic = m, operand_count = 4, length = mode == .A32 ? 4 : 4, mode = mode, cond = 14,
ops = {op_reg(rd), op_reg(rn), op_reg(rm), op_reg(ra)}}
}
// Memory load/store
@(require_results)
inst_load :: #force_inline proc "contextless" (m: Mnemonic, rd: Register, mm: Memory, mode: Mode = .A32) -> Instruction {
return Instruction{mnemonic = m, operand_count = 2, length = mode == .A32 ? 4 : 4, mode = mode, cond = 14,
ops = {op_reg(rd), op_mem(mm), {}, {}}}
}
@(require_results)
inst_store :: #force_inline proc "contextless" (m: Mnemonic, rd: Register, mm: Memory, mode: Mode = .A32) -> Instruction {
return inst_load(m, rd, mm, mode)
}
// LDM/STM/PUSH/POP block move
@(require_results)
inst_block :: #force_inline proc "contextless" (m: Mnemonic, base: Register, mask: u16, mode: Mode = .A32) -> Instruction {
return Instruction{mnemonic = m, operand_count = 2, length = mode == .A32 ? 4 : 4, mode = mode, cond = 14,
ops = {op_reg(base), op_reg_list(mask), {}, {}}}
}
// Branches with label
@(require_results)
inst_branch :: #force_inline proc "contextless" (m: Mnemonic, label_id: u32, mode: Mode = .A32) -> Instruction {
return Instruction{mnemonic = m, operand_count = 1, length = mode == .A32 ? 4 : 4, mode = mode, cond = 14,
ops = {op_label(label_id), {}, {}, {}}}
}
// Set condition code on any builder
@(require_results)
inst_set_cond :: #force_inline proc "contextless" (inst: Instruction, cond: u8) -> Instruction {
out := inst
out.cond = cond
return out
}
// Set S flag (sets APSR.NZCV)
@(require_results)
inst_set_flags :: #force_inline proc "contextless" (inst: Instruction) -> Instruction {
out := inst
out.sets_flags = true
return out
}