From: eregontp@... Date: 2020-10-28T10:09:50+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:100619] [Ruby master Feature#17288] Optimize __send__ call with a literal method name Issue #17288 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze). Here are the first 1000 .send() usages in gems: https://gist.github.com/eregon/21c8f14c478089c1a9295c21661583a9 420 of them use a literal Symbol for the first argument. > Private methods shall not be called at the first place. Period. It's not as simple, there are many cases where it's reasonable to call private methods. For instance things like `Module#{include,prepend,alias_method,define_method}` used to be private, and `Module#remove_const` still is. Some gems call their own private methods in tests, which seems fair enough. shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe) wrote in #note-2: > Not against the ability to write `obj.__send__(:method)`, but `obj.method` must be the preferable way and thus must be the fastest thing. I would think nobody prefers `obj.__send__(:some_method)` to `obj.some_method` if `some_method` is public, so it seems a non-issue to me. And anyway `obj.some_method` would always be as fast or faster than `obj.__send__(:some_method)`, never slower (that would be a performance bug). ---------------------------------------- Feature #17288: Optimize __send__ call with a literal method name https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/17288#change-88251 * Author: mrkn (Kenta Murata) * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Assignee: matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto) ---------------------------------------- I made a patch to optimize a `__send__` call with a literal method name. This optimization replaces a `__send__` method call with a `send` instruction. The patch is available in [this pull-request](https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/3707). By this change, the redefined `__send__` method is no longer called when it is called by a literal method name. I guess it is no problem because the following warning message is displayed for a long time. $ ruby -e 'def __send__; end' -e:1: warning: redefining `__send__' may cause serious problems This change makes the optimized case x5~x6 faster. The benchmark result is below: ``` $ make benchmark COMPARE_RUBY="../../ruby/build-o3/ruby" ITEM=vm_send.yml (snip) # Iteration per second (i/s) | |compare-ruby|built-ruby| |:------------|-----------:|---------:| |vm_send | 18.536M| 113.778M| | | -| 6.14x| |vm_send_var | 18.085M| 16.595M| | | 1.09x| -| ``` -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/ Unsubscribe: