PR #3131 fixed the failing builds by allowing this field to be dead.
After looking at it further the field is not being used and can be
removedi completely.
Before this patch, running the x64 new backend would require both
compiling with --features experimental_x64 and running with
`use_new_backend`.
This patches changes this behavior so that the runtime flag is not
needed anymore: using the feature flag will enforce usage of the new
backend everywhere, making using and testing it much simpler:
cargo run --features experimental_x64 ;; other CLI options/flags
This also gives a hint at what the meta language generation would look
like after switching to the new backend.
Compiling only with the x64 codegen flag gives a nice compile time speedup.
This converts an `i32x4` into an `f32x4` with some rounding either by using an AVX512VL/F instruction--VCVTUDQ2PS--or a long sequence of SSE4.1 compatible instructions.
The `convert_i64x2_imul` custom legalization checks the ISA flags for AVX512DQ or AVX512VL support and legalizes `imul.i64x2` to an `x86_pmullq` in this case; if not, it uses a lengthy SSE2-compatible instruction sequence.
Accessing Wasm reference globals that are reference types will
want to use the plain load/store instructions. This commit adds
encodings for these instructions to match loading a i32/i64.
Producers of IR are required to insert the appropriate barriers
around the loads/stores.
This does a lot at once, since there was no clear way to split the three
commits:
- Instruction need to be passed an explicit InstructionFormat,
- InstructionFormat deduplication is checked once all entities have been
defined;
