Commit Graph

9 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Kayne Ruse
1ae3fcbf73 WIP: Scopes weren't tracking their content sizes
'print' no longer segfaults from a long chain of indirect memory frees.

It still doesn't work though, which is odd.
2026-04-06 21:50:41 +10:00
Kayne Ruse
914ee6fcfa WIP: Fixed strings and scopes, still reworking impacted areas 2026-04-05 10:13:58 +10:00
Kayne Ruse
d3b59eb0da WIP functions working, untested, memory issues, read more
I've ripped out the deep copying, and flattened the bucket usage, but
this results in no memory being freed or reused for the lifetime of the
program.

This is shown most clearly with this script:

```toy
fn makeCounter() {
	var counter: int = 0;

	fn increment() {
		return ++counter;
	}

	return increment;
}

var tally = makeCounter();

while (true) {
	var result = tally();

	if (result >= 10_000_000) {
		break;
	}
}
```

The number of calls vs amount of memory consumed is:

```
function calls -> memory used in megabytes
1_000 -> 0.138128
10_000 -> 2.235536
100_000 -> 21.7021
1_000_000 -> 216.1712
10_000_000 -> 1520.823
```

Obviously this needs to be fixed, as ballooning to gigabytes of memory
in only a moment isn't practical. That will be the next task - to find
some way to free memory that isn't needed anymore.

See #163, #160
2025-02-21 11:41:27 +11:00
Kayne Ruse
9fe6d6b218 WIP bad approach, read more
I build a self-referential system, then tried to copy only parts. I need
to step back and adjust my approach.

'Toy_private_deepCopyValue' and 'Toy_private_deepCopyScope' need to be
ripped out, and I need to simply accept there will be only one instance
of 'Toy_Bucket' that isn't freed until the top-level VM is.

I need an hour's break before I'll tackle this again.

See #163
2025-02-18 13:06:15 +11:00
Kayne Ruse
639250f028 WIP return keyword, read more
Functions are having issues with being copied around, especially
between buckets, leading to the scopes getting looped. The program gets
stuck in 'incrementRefCount()'.

It's past my time limit, so I'll keep working on it tomorrow with a
fresh mind.

All function stuff is still untested.

See #163
2025-02-17 19:10:24 +11:00
Kayne Ruse
258968d7a4 WIP, Functions are declared, still not called 2025-02-11 11:55:35 +11:00
Kayne Ruse
62ca7a1fb7 WIP: Implementing arrays into the script, read more
I had intended to solve the Advent of Code puzzles in Toy, but they
don't work without arrays. I wasn't able to enable arrays in time, so
I need to focus on doing things correctly.

The most immediate tasks are marked with 'URGENT', and a lot of tests
need writing.
2024-12-02 11:58:03 +11:00
Kayne Ruse
c1d72adb71 Finished the scope tests 2024-10-12 19:34:37 +11:00
Kayne Ruse
87793b694a Wrote a bit of the scope tests, they're still incomplete 2024-10-11 16:29:15 +11:00