Reviewers: Kasper Lund, Kevin Millikin,

Message:
A tiny code review for you.
The inner loop could be made

while (ref_counts_[++i]);

with a sentinel, but I think it is fast enough as is.

Description:
Speed up the inner loop of free register allocation.

Please review this at http://codereview.chromium.org/42296

SVN Base: http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/branches/bleeding_edge/

Affected files:
   M     src/register-allocator.h
   M     src/register-allocator.cc


Index: src/register-allocator.h
===================================================================
--- src/register-allocator.h    (revision 1525)
+++ src/register-allocator.h    (working copy)
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@
    // Record that a register will no longer be used by decrementing its
    // reference count.
    void Unuse(Register reg) {
+    ASSERT(!reg.is(no_reg));
      ASSERT(is_used(reg.code()));
      if (is_used(reg.code())) {
        ref_counts_[reg.code()]--;
@@ -161,6 +162,15 @@
   private:
    int ref_counts_[kNumRegisters];

+  // Very fast inlined loop to find a free register.
+  inline int ScanForFreeRegister() {
+    int i = 0;
+    for (; i < kNumRegisters ; ++i ) {
+      if (ref_counts_[i] == 0) break;
+    }
+    return i;
+  }
+
    friend class RegisterAllocator;
  };

Index: src/register-allocator.cc
===================================================================
--- src/register-allocator.cc   (revision 1525)
+++ src/register-allocator.cc   (working copy)
@@ -83,11 +83,10 @@

  Result RegisterAllocator::AllocateWithoutSpilling() {
    // Return the first free register, if any.
-  for (int i = 0; i < kNumRegisters; i++) {
-    if (!is_used(i)) {
-      Register free_reg = { i };
-      return Result(free_reg, cgen_);
-    }
+  int free_reg = registers_.ScanForFreeRegister();
+  if (free_reg < kNumRegisters) {
+    Register free_result = { free_reg };
+    return Result(free_result, cgen_);
    }
    return Result(cgen_);
  }



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