Unifies the interface, so that there's no need for a stark difference.
Previously, calling the single/double variant didn't require explicit template
arguments, but the half-float version did, which is inconsistent.
Technically it also made the interface more cumbersome to use in the event the
element size isn't able to be determined as a constant ahead of time.
When #2722 implemented this initially and #4271 switched over to signed
int16_t there was assumptions made that int16_t was a reasonable
trade-off in encoding size versus needing to deal with 8-bit values
being too small in some cases.
In the common case we are almost always encoding 8-bit values because
instructions are typically linear (and less than 15-bytes in size), but
16-bit was chosen because optimizing JIT and multiple instructions that
don't cause exceptions can add up to larger than 8-bit.
Instead of hardcoding 16-bit values, implement a variable length integer
class where ~96.8% of values are 8-bit encoded, and the remaining 3.19% are encoded using 16-bit.
Due to some constraints that #4271 put in place, we can basically
guarantee currently that branch targets are within 16-bit. The VL class
does support 32-bit and 64-bit as well so if we change behaviour then
nothing needs to change.
Some stats when running Sonic Mania with multiblock enabled.
Encoded integers: 3,504,907
Encoded 8-bit: 3,393,095 (96.8%)
Encoded 16-bit: 111,812 (3.19%)
Encoded 32/64-bit: 0
Encoded Size: 3,615,181 bytes (3.44MiB)
Fixed encoded size: 7,007,604 bytes (6.68MiB)
Definitely worth using and saves the headache of large RIP/PC offsets
causing problems.
At the moment we always run ctest with max number of cpus. If
undefined, it will keep current behaviour, otherwise it will
honour TEST_JOB_COUNT.
Therefore to run ctest one test at a time, use
`cmake ... -DTEST_JOB_COUNT=1`
The vixl disassembler has gotten more strict about certain instruction types, so these tests
aren't really needed.
Alternatively, we could mark them as unallocated, but we can opt to remove them here.
When attempting to read files that aren't backed by a filesystem then
our current read file helpers fail since they query the file size
upfront.
Change the helper so that it doesn't query the size and just reads the file if it
can be opened. This lets us read `/proc/self/maps` using helpers.
Ryan Houdek