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Ports the behaviour-preserving performance fixes found in the NSMBW, kartpad and MLB forks that hold up here: single rounding, dirty-register writeback, a shared indirect-call table, bulk DVD copies, XF load batching and a few GX HLE lookups. Headless race-cpu bench pinned to one CCX on a 3900X: game-thread busy about 2% lower per frame, almost all from the dirty-register writeback.
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The changes add control-flow-aware register write-back to code generation, replace raw dispatch lookup with a published hash table, and update floating-point conversion and runtime memory and GX operations.
Changes: Translator register residency
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Summary
Dirty-state analysis and flush behavior translator/src/Translator.Core/CodeGen/CxxLinearCodeGenerator.RegisterResidency.cs
Register residency records dirty state across blocks, edges, and alternatives. Flushes store selected dirty registers; reloads update the tracked state.
Tests cover write-back behavior across calls, exits, branches, loops, edge normalization, and ABI paths.
Raw dispatch lookup
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Summary
Hash-table publication and lookup runtime/include/guest_abi/dispatch.h, runtime/src/abi_bridge.cpp
Registry finalization builds and publishes an open-addressed table from generated and dynamic records. Lookup probes the table and returns null before publication or when no address matches.
PowerPC single-precision conversion
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Summary
Fast and slow conversion paths runtime/include/isa/ppc_isa_float.h
The conversion helper uses the slow NI-aware path for zero, subnormal, and smallest-normal boundary values. Other converted values return directly.
Indexed vertex and XF arrays use a shared resolver. Eligible single-page spans can resolve through page bias; other cases use containment checks and guest-pointer resolution.
GX FIFO packet handling
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Summary
Incomplete writes and packet runs runtime/src/hle/gx/gx_fifo.cpp
Eligible writes append a word to an incomplete XF-load packet. Consecutive complete XF-load packets are passed to one display-list call.
sequenceDiagram
participant CxxLinearCodeGenerator
participant RegisterResidency
participant GeneratedCode
CxxLinearCodeGenerator->>RegisterResidency: record block, edge, and alternative writes
RegisterResidency->>CxxLinearCodeGenerator: provide dirty state for flush
CxxLinearCodeGenerator->>GeneratedCode: emit selected register stores
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Possibly related PRs
patchzyy/Wiicompiled#346: Adds a raw-target dispatch path that uses the raw record lookup changed here.
patchzyy/Wiicompiled#398: Changes LR continuation call synchronization and shares the register flush behavior changed here.
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Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 23c03
The changes are mergeable subject to normal checks. Repeated register-only display-list scanning retains existing behavior rather than introducing a performance regression.
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270-273: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Add a clean sibling exit to the edge-normalization test.
Branch from paired to either merge or a separate return. Assert that the separate return does not publish f5. Recording normalization in the source block could dirty the sibling path while passing the current assertions.
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@translator/tests/Translator.Tests/DirtyRegisterWritebackCodeGenTests.cs around
lines 270 - 273:
The EdgeNormalizationWriteMakesTheRegisterDirtyOnThatEdgeOnly test does not
verify that edge normalization leaves a sibling exit clean. Add a branch from
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separate return does not publish f5; preserve the existing assertion that
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Review comments at @runtime/include/hle/dvd_contract.h:
- Around line 312-321: Update the cached-file validation around the openFiles
lookup so a matching path is reused only when it still identifies the current
host file, not merely when its modification time matches. Ensure a replacement
file cannot leave a stale cached stream for ReadExact to use, while preserving
the existing cache invalidation behavior.
- Around line 363-378: Update the read path around found->stream.read so the
cached DVD file handle is released after every read, including successful reads,
rather than remaining open until eviction or thread exit. Reuse the existing
openFiles cleanup behavior, preserving the staged read result and failure
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Review comments at @runtime/src/hle/egg_decomp.cpp:
- Around line 116-124: Update the GuestSZSAccess path in DecodeSZS so it
captures the decoded byte count, calls GxNotifyGuestRamDmaWrite with dst and
that count after a successful decode, and returns the count.
Review comments at @runtime/src/hle/gx/gx_dl.cpp:
- Around line 1337-1341: Revalidate cached register-only list classifications
against the current list bytes before reusing them, since GX recording can
replace a same-sized buffer without advancing its write generation. Update the
cache-hit path around `StoreDlScanCache` so new CP writes or indexed draws
cannot retain a stale register-only classification.
Review comments at
@translator/src/Translator.Core/CodeGen/CxxLinearCodeGenerator.RegisterResidency.cs:
- Around line 433-438: Update the flush bookkeeping around `NoteClean` so
callback-capable calls preserve the caller’s resident XER: ensure a callback’s
XER changes cannot be treated as clean and reused by a later handler, either by
preserving architectural XER across callbacks or by republishing the resident
value before the next callback.
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Review comments at
@translator/tests/Translator.Tests/DirtyRegisterWritebackCodeGenTests.cs:
- Around line 270-273: The
EdgeNormalizationWriteMakesTheRegisterDirtyOnThatEdgeOnly test does not verify
that edge normalization leaves a sibling exit clean. Add a branch from the
paired state to either merge or a separate return, and assert that the separate
return does not publish f5; preserve the existing assertion that normalization
dirties only the edge leading to merge.
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- Line 32: Revalidate the live bytes of a cached no-draw list before reusing its
flattened result; do not rely on the unchanged generation alone, since uncached
guest writes can bypass GxGuestWrite::NotifyWrite. Update the cache reuse path
associated with g_dlRecordState so newly added nested display lists are
flattened and their draws are preserved.
- Line 32: Update the recording-start flow around g_dlRecordState so that, when
an active recording is abandoned, its writes are published with
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- Line 32: Update the cached-scan lookup associated with
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Minor · Cache the classification of repeated register-only lists. · gx_dl.cpp:1333-1335
runtime/src/hle/gx/gx_dl.cpp:1333-1335 Minor · Performance & Scalability · Low value
Cache the classification of repeated register-only lists.
A frame that repeatedly submits a long register-only list scans every command on each call. This can materially increase CPU time. Reuse the classification when the list and cache key are unchanged.
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Review comment at @runtime/src/hle/gx/gx_dl.cpp around lines 1333 - 1335:
Cache the may-contain-draw classification for register-only lists so repeated
submissions with an unchanged list and cache key do not rescan every command.
Update the caching flow around DisplayListMayContainDraw to retain and reuse the
classification, while preserving the existing cache invalidation behavior when
the list or its key changes.
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Review comments at @runtime/src/hle/gx/gx_dl.cpp:
- Around line 1333-1335: Cache the may-contain-draw classification for
register-only lists so repeated submissions with an unchanged list and cache key
do not rescan every command. Update the caching flow around
DisplayListMayContainDraw to retain and reuse the classification, while
preserving the existing cache invalidation behavior when the list or its key
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@coderabbitai Not re-adding the register-only display-list classification cache: it was removed in b41d0c9 because of the stale-classification cases you raised on gx_frame.cpp, and it measured within noise, so this PR keeps main's behaviour of walking those lists. Skipping docstring coverage too, the repo doesn't use that convention.
@patchzyy Understood. I won’t recommend re-adding the register-only display-list classification cache or adding docstrings to satisfy coverage for this PR.
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Ports the behaviour-preserving performance fixes found in the NSMBW, kartpad and MLB forks that hold up here: single rounding, dirty-register writeback, a shared indirect-call table, bulk DVD copies, XF load batching and a few GX HLE lookups. Headless race-cpu bench pinned to one CCX on a 3900X: game-thread busy about 2% lower per frame, almost all from the dirty-register writeback.
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