On May 19, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Kenneth Christiansen wrote:
Great! I notices that RegExp.h still includes WREC, will that be
changed?
WREC should be removed completely fairly soon. We just wanted to
leave some overlap with YARR and WREC both in ToT, in case we needed
to revert back to WREC for any reason. But right now YARR is looking
stable, so we should probably finish the move fairly soon. QT & GTK
switching over is clearly a great step towards us being able to do
so. :-)
Right now, if it makes life easier, we could probably switch the
includes in that file to be:
#if ENABLE(YARR)
#include "yarr/RegexJIT.h"
#include "yarr/RegexInterpreter.h"
#else
#include "WREC.h"
#endif
If it requires the JIT why are there both a ENABLE_YARR and an
ENABLE_YARR_JIT ?
YARR can be used both in JIT mode, or as an interpreter (the latter
being enabled just with ENABLE_YARR).
Before YARR, platforms either used just pcre (if they did not support
any JIT generation), or used WREC for simple regexes, and fell back to
pcre for more complex ones. Right now platforms that don't support
JIT generation still just use pcre, but platforms that do JIT have
switched to using the YARR JIT, falling back to pcre for cases that
YARR does not handle (which is fewer than for WREC).
YARR is still work in progress, and the two key things left to do are
to optimize the YARR interpreter (which is missing some key and
obvious steps in optimization, and as such is still slower that pcre),
and to complete the YARR JIT, so it can handle all regular expressions
(YARR interpreter already has full coverage, we're just missing some
code generation).
Once these tasks are completed we hope to switch platforms that don't
support JIT generation over to use YARR interpreter, and that
platforms that do support JIT generation will just be using YARR JIT
(with no need to fall back to anything else, since it will have
complete coverage).
cheers,
G.
Cheers,
Kenneth
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Geoffrey Garen <[email protected]>
wrote:
If so, does it work on the same platforms at the JSCore JIT?
What problems are those?
Oops!
"platforms"
Yes, it works on the same platforms as the JSCore JIT.
Geoff
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