This commit fixes an issue I found in the subshell $RANDOM
reseeding code.
The main issue is a performance regression in the shbench fibonacci
benchmark, introduced in commit af6a32d1. Performance dropped in
this benchmark because $RANDOM is always reseeded and restored,
even when it's never used in a subshell. Performance results from
before and after this performance fix (results are on Linux with
CC=gcc and CCFLAGS='-O2 -D_std_malloc'):
$ ./shbench -b bench/fibonacci.ksh -l 100 ./ksh-0f06a2e ./ksh-af6a32d ./ksh-f31e368 ./ksh-randfix
benchmarking ./ksh-0f06a2e, ./ksh-af6a32d, ./ksh-f31e368, ./ksh-randfix ...
*** fibonacci.ksh ***
# ./ksh-0f06a2e # Recent version of ksh93u+m
# ./ksh-af6a32d # Commit that introduced the regression
# ./ksh-f31e368 # Commit without the regression
# ./ksh-randfix # Ksh93u+m with this patch applied
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name ./ksh-0f06a2e ./ksh-af6a32d ./ksh-f31e368 ./ksh-randfix
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fibonacci.ksh 0.481 [0.459-0.515] 0.472 [0.455-0.504] 0.396 [0.380-0.442] 0.407 [0.385-0.439]
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src/cmd/ksh93/include/variables.h,
src/cmd/ksh93/sh/{init,subshell}.c:
- Rather than reseed $RANDOM every time a subshell is created, add
a sh_save_rand_seed() function that does this only when the
$RANDOM variable is used in a subshell. This function is called
by the $RANDOM discipline functions nget_rand() and put_rand().
As a minor optimization, sh_save_rand_seed doesn't reseed if it's
called from put_rand().
- Because $RANDOM may have a seed of zero (i.e., RANDOM=0),
sp->rand_seed isn't enough to tell if $RANDOM has been reseeded.
Add sp->rand_state for this purpose.
- sh_subshell(): Only restore the former $RANDOM seed and state if
it is necessary to prevent a subshell leak.
src/cmd/ksh93/tests/variables.sh:
- Add two regression tests for bugs I ran into while making this
patch.
396b388e1f