假装 64 位整数具有无限范围

发布于 2024-10-14 08:57:52 字数 1046 浏览 6 评论 0原文

我正在为一种专有语言实现一个编译器。

该语言有一种内置的整数类型,范围不受限制。有时变量使用较小的类型表示,例如,如果 ab 是整型变量,但 b 仅分配表达式<的值代码>a % 100000 或a & 0xFFFFFF,则 b 可以表示为 Int32

我正在考虑实施以下优化。假设它看到与此 C# 方法等效的内容:

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    BigInt i = 0;
    while (true)
    {
        DoStuff(i++);
    }
}

从数学上来说,转换为以下内容无效有效:

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    Int64 i = 0;
    while (true)
    {
        DoStuff(i++);
    }
}

因为我已将 BigInt 替换为 Int64 >,如果循环永远运行,最终会溢出。不过我怀疑我可以忽略这种可能性,因为:

  • i 被初始化为 0,并且只能通过重复添加 1 来修改,这意味着将需要 263 迭代 。
  • 如果 DoStuff 做了任何有用的工作,那么 i 需要几个世纪的时间(根据我非常粗略的测试推断)才能溢出 运行该程序的机器不会持续那么久。不仅如此,它的架构可能也不会持续那么久,所以我也不需要担心它在迁移到新硬件的虚拟机上运行。
  • 如果 DoStuff 没有做任何有用的工作,操作员最终会注意到它正在浪费 CPU 周期并终止进程

那么我需要担心什么情况?
有编译器已经使用这个 hack 了吗?

I am implementing a compiler for a proprietary language.

The language has one built-in integer type, with unlimited range. Sometimes variables are represented using smaller types, for example if a and b are integer variables but b is only ever assigned the value of the expression a % 100000 or a & 0xFFFFFF, then b can be represented as an Int32 instead.

I am considering implementing the following optimization. Suppose it sees the equivalent of this C# method:

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    BigInt i = 0;
    while (true)
    {
        DoStuff(i++);
    }
}

Mathematically speaking, transforming into the following is not valid:

public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    Int64 i = 0;
    while (true)
    {
        DoStuff(i++);
    }
}

Because I have replaced a BigInt with an Int64, which will eventually overflow if the loop runs forever. However I suspect I can ignore this possibility because:

  • i is initialized to 0 and is modified only by repeatedly adding 1 to it, which means that will take 263 iterations of the loop to make it overflow
  • If DoStuff does any useful work, it will take centuries (extrapolated from my very crude tests) for i to overflow. The machine the program runs on will not last that long. Not only that but its architecture probably won't last that long either, so I also don't need to worry about it running on a VM that is migrated to new hardware.
  • If DoStuff does not do any useful work, an operator will eventually notice that it is wasting CPU cycles and kill the process

So what scenarios do I need to worry about?
Do any compilers already use this hack?

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伪装你 2024-10-21 08:57:52

嗯..在我看来你已经回答了你的问题。

但我怀疑这个问题是否真的有任何有用的结果。

如果默认情况下唯一的内置整数具有无限范围,那么对于循环计数器等典型用法来说,它的效率应该不会低下。

我认为仅在实际溢出发生后扩展值范围(并为变量分配更多内存)对于这种语言来说并不困难。

Well.. It seems to me you already answered your question.

But I doubt the question really has any useful outcome.

If the only built-in integer has unlimited range by default it should not inefficient for typical usage such as a loop counter.

I think expanding value range (and allocate more memory to the variable) only after actual overflow occur won't that hard for such language.

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