More efficient code can be generated if the shift amount is known at
compile time. We can once again take advantage of shifts with the shift
amount in an 8-bit immediate to eliminate ECX as a scratch register,
reducing register pressure and removing the occasional spill. We can
also do 32-bit shifts instead of 64-bit operations.
We recognize four distinct cases:
- The special case where we're dealing with the PowerPC's quirky shift
amount masking. If the shift amount is a number from 32 to 63, all
bits are shifted out and the result it either all zeroes or all ones.
Before:
B9 F0 FF FF FF mov ecx,0FFFFFFF0h
8B F7 mov esi,edi
48 C1 E6 20 shl rsi,20h
48 D3 FE sar rsi,cl
8B C6 mov eax,esi
48 C1 EE 20 shr rsi,20h
85 F0 test eax,esi
0F 95 45 58 setne byte ptr [rbp+58h]
After:
8B F7 mov esi,edi
C1 FE 1F sar esi,1Fh
0F 95 45 58 setne byte ptr [rbp+58h]
- The shift amount is zero. Not calculation needs to be done, just clear
the carry flag.
Before:
B9 00 00 00 00 mov ecx,0
49 C1 E5 20 shl r13,20h
49 D3 FD sar r13,cl
41 8B C5 mov eax,r13d
49 C1 ED 20 shr r13,20h
44 85 E8 test eax,r13d
0F 95 45 58 setne byte ptr [rbp+58h]
After:
C6 45 58 00 mov byte ptr [rbp+58h],0
- The carry flag doesn't need to be computed. Just do the arithmetic
shift.
Before:
B9 02 00 00 00 mov ecx,2
48 C1 E7 20 shl rdi,20h
48 D3 FF sar rdi,cl
48 C1 EF 20 shr rdi,20h
After:
C1 FF 02 sar edi,2
- The carry flag must be computed. In addition to the arithmetic shift,
we do a shift to the left and and them together to know if any ones
were shifted out. It's still better than before, because we can do
32-bit shifts.
Before:
B9 02 00 00 00 mov ecx,2
49 C1 E5 20 shl r13,20h
49 D3 FD sar r13,cl
41 8B C5 mov eax,r13d
49 C1 ED 20 shr r13,20h
44 85 E8 test eax,r13d
0F 95 45 58 setne byte ptr [rbp+58h]
After:
41 8B C5 mov eax,r13d
41 C1 FD 02 sar r13d,2
C1 E0 1E shl eax,1Eh
44 85 E8 test eax,r13d
0F 95 45 58 setne byte ptr [rbp+58h]
More efficient code can be generated if the shift amount is known at
compile time. Similar optimizations were present in JitArm64 already,
but were missing in Jit64.
- By using an 8-bit immediate we can eliminate the need for ECX as a
scratch register, thereby reducing register pressure and occasionally
eliminating a spill.
Before:
B9 18 00 00 00 mov ecx,18h
41 8B F7 mov esi,r15d
48 D3 E6 shl rsi,cl
8B F6 mov esi,esi
After:
41 8B CF mov ecx,r15d
C1 E1 18 shl ecx,18h
- PowerPC has strange shift amount masking behavior which is emulated
using 64-bit shifts, even though we only care about a 32-bit result.
If the shift amount is known, we can handle this special case
separately, and use 32-bit shift instructions otherwise. We also no
longer need to clear the upper 32 bits of the register.
Before:
BE F8 FF FF FF mov esi,0FFFFFFF8h
8B CE mov ecx,esi
41 8B F4 mov esi,r12d
48 D3 E6 shl rsi,cl
8B F6 mov esi,esi
After:
Nothing, register is set to constant zero.
- A shift by zero becomes a simple MOV.
Before:
BE 00 00 00 00 mov esi,0
8B CE mov ecx,esi
41 8B F3 mov esi,r11d
48 D3 E6 shl rsi,cl
8B F6 mov esi,esi
After:
41 8B FB mov edi,r11d
More efficient code can be generated if the shift amount is known at
compile time. Similar optimizations were present in JitArm64 already,
but were missing in Jit64.
- By using an 8-bit immediate we can eliminate the need for ECX as a
scratch register, thereby reducing register pressure and occasionally
eliminating a spill.
Before:
B9 18 00 00 00 mov ecx,18h
45 8B C1 mov r8d,r9d
49 D3 E8 shr r8,cl
After:
45 8B C1 mov r8d,r9d
41 C1 E8 18 shr r8d,18h
- PowerPC has strange shift amount masking behavior which is emulated
using 64-bit shifts, even though we only care about a 32-bit result.
If the shift amount is known, we can handle this special case
separately, and use 32-bit shift instructions otherwise.
Before:
B9 F8 FF FF FF mov ecx,0FFFFFFF8h
45 8B C1 mov r8d,r9d
49 D3 E8 shr r8,cl
After:
Nothing, register is set to constant zero.
- A shift by zero becomes a simple MOV.
Before:
B9 00 00 00 00 mov ecx,0
45 8B C1 mov r8d,r9d
49 D3 E8 shr r8,cl
After:
45 8B C1 mov r8d,r9d
Basically, instead of having one button for config, one button
for graphics settings and so on, we now have just one settings
button which takes you to a screen where you pick between
config/graphics/GameCube controllers/Wii Remotes.
The main reason I want to do this is because people still have
trouble finding Overlay Controls in the "new" in-game menu.
Typically (depending on the screen size and the length of the
game name), the scrollable part of the menu can fit 4 items,
and merging Config and Graphics Settings into one item would
move Overlay Controls from 5th place to 4th place (assuming the
user doesn't have savestates enabled), which makes it findable
even for users who don't realize the menu can be scrolled.
The dialog that's shown when long pressing a game in the game
list is also shortened. While not a pressing matter, I think
it was getting a bit long.
An additional reason to do this is because we probably will
want to make it possible to edit the controller settings
from the in-game menu at some point in the future. With the
old approach, this would require us to dedicate a whopping 4
menu items just for settings (not including Overlay Controls),
which I think is excessive.
Introduces the system class that will eventually contain all relevant
system state, as opposed to everything being distributed all over the
place as global variables.
Throughout the codebase we have code that from its interface-view, does
not actually require its dependencies to be described in the interface,
and we routinely run into issues with initialization where we sometimes
make use of a facility before it's been initialized, which leads to
annoying to debug cases, because the reader needs to run through the
codebase and see what order things get initialized in, and how they're
being used. This is particularly a frequent issue in the video code.
Further, we also have a lot of code that makes use of file-scope
variables (many of which are non-trivial), which must all be default
initialized before the application can actually enter main(). While this
may not be a huge issue in itself, some of these are allocating, which
means that the application may need to use memory that it otherwise
wouldn't need to (e.g. when a game isn't running, this excess memory is
being used).
Being able to wrap all these subsystems into objects would be nicer,
since they can be constructed when they're actually needed. Them being
objects also means we can better express dependencies on subsystems as
types directly in the interface, making them explicit to the reader
instead of a change randomly blowing up, said reader inspecting it, and finding
out that something needed to be initialized beforehand. With the global
turned into a function parameter, the dependency is explicit and they
know just by reading it, that the given subsystem needs to be in a valid
state before calling the function.
For a prior example of an emulator that has moved to this model, see
yuzu, which has been migrated off of global variables all over the place
and replaced with a system instance (which has now reached the stage,
where the singleton can be removed).
We want to clear/memset the padding bytes, not just each member,
so using assignment or {} initialization is not an option.
To silence the warnings, cast the object pointer to u8* (which is not
undefined behavior) to make it explicit to the compiler that we want
to fill the object representation.
TunTap has recently become unmaintained, and it seems Apple wants developers to move away from kexts in general. TunTap currently takes some finagling to work on Catalina, and it may not work at all on Big Sur, necessitating a non-kext-based solution. Fortunately, fake Ethernet devices were introduced in Sierra and can be used similarly to tap adapters. This commit adds a new type of BBA interface implementation which uses fake Ethernet devices via tapserver (https://github.com/fuzziqersoftware/tapserver) to communicate with the host. This implementation was tested with PSO Episodes I & II, which can successfully connect to a private server running locally.
This implementation is only available on macOS, since that's the only place it's needed - Windows/Linux/Unix are unaffected by TunTap being deprecated.
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