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Author SHA1 Message Date
Matthew Olsson
9bed2e4f4a LibJS: Introduce an accumulator register to Bytecode::Interpreter
This commit introduces the concept of an accumulator register to
LibJS's bytecode interpreter. The accumulator register is always
register 0, and most simple instructions use it for reading and
writing.

Not only does this slim down the AST, but it also simplifies a lot of
the code. For example, the generate_bytecode methods no longer need
to return an Optional<Register>, as any opcode which has a "return"
value will always put it into the accumulator.

This also renames the old Op::Load to Op::LoadImmediate, and uses
Op::Load to load from a register into the accumulator. There is
also an Op::Store to put the value in the accumulator into another
register.
2021-06-08 21:00:12 +02:00
Andreas Kling
6d66cdc668 LibJS: Print bytecode registers with format "$num" instead of "rnum" 2021-06-07 18:11:59 +02:00
Andreas Kling
23a4448862 LibJS: Add formatting helper for Bytecode::Register 2021-06-07 18:11:59 +02:00
Andreas Kling
69dddd4ef5 LibJS: Start fleshing out a bytecode for the JavaScript engine :^)
This patch begins the work of implementing JavaScript execution in a
bytecode VM instead of an AST tree-walk interpreter.

It's probably quite naive, but we have to start somewhere.

The basic idea is that you call Bytecode::Generator::generate() on an
AST node and it hands you back a Bytecode::Block filled with
instructions that can then be interpreted by a Bytecode::Interpreter.

This first version only implements two instructions: Load and Add. :^)

Each bytecode block has infinity registers, and the interpreter resizes
its register file to fit the block being executed.

Two new `js` options are added in this patch as well:

`-d` will dump the generated bytecode
`-b` will execute the generated bytecode

Note that unless `-d` and/or `-b` are specified, none of the bytecode
related stuff in LibJS runs at all. This is implemented in parallel
with the existing AST interpreter. :^)
2021-06-07 18:11:59 +02:00