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@markshannon markshannon requested a review from mdboom January 3, 2024 13:33
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This is great. I just had a few points where I wasn't quite following that might need elaboration.

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so we need to store the offset in the executor.

Since there is a fixed number of micro-ops allowed in a superblock, we have an uppper
bound on the offset. We will-preallocate one exit object per possible offset.
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Does "possible offset" here mean all 512 per executor, or just the number of instructions with EXIT_IF in them?


* The offset/location of the pointer: Implicit if we embed the exit pointer in the exit data
* The target: Has a maximum value of about 10**9, so store as a `uint32_t`
* Any relevant known type information: Format TBD.
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Am I correct that this is only needed for intra-executor optimization and thus could be deferred until we start working on that?

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yes

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Just typo fixes

markshannon and others added 2 commits January 3, 2024 15:57
Co-authored-by: Michael Droettboom <mdboom@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
@markshannon markshannon merged commit 7587e6e into main Jan 3, 2024
@markshannon markshannon deleted the engine branch January 19, 2024 09:12
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