Claude 0b5470b054

codegen: skip parameter-spill prologue for leaf functions ...

Leaf functions — those that never JSR another routine from inside
their body — don't need to spill the `$04..$07` parameter
transport slots into per-function RAM, because nothing inside the
body clobbers those slots. Detect them in `IrCodeGen::new` via a
linear scan over each function's IR ops, point their parameters
at `$04..$07` directly in `var_addrs` (and in a parallel
`leaf_param_overrides` map for inline-asm `{name}` substitution),
and have `gen_function` skip the spill prologue.

The "leaf" predicate is conservative: any of `IrOp::Call`, `Mul`,
`Div`, `Mod`, `Transition`, or an inline-asm body containing a
`JSR` token disqualifies the function. SetPalette /
LoadBackground / PlaySfx / StartMusic / DebugLog / DebugAssert
were verified by inspection to not emit JSRs.

Per call to a leaf primitive: `LDA $04 / STA <local> / LDA $05 /
STA <local+1>` is now omitted — saves 12 cycles and 12 bytes of
code per call. Across the SHA-256 example's ~5500 leaf-primitive
calls per block, that's ~66K cycles saved per compression — about
2.2 frames at NTSC.

The fix also touches every committed `examples/*.nes` (the leaf
prologue was emitted by every fun with params, not just the SHA
ones), so 9 ROMs and the same three timing-sensitive goldens
(war.png + platformer/pong/war audio hashes) get refreshed; the
two committed gifs that drifted do too.

Verified: cargo test/clippy/fmt clean on rustc 1.95.0; emulator
harness 34/34; reproducibility diff clean; SHA-256 of "NES" still
computes to AE9145DB…4E0D.

https://claude.ai/code/session_01FRmSBruVWCufm3LsUVMs8v

2026-04-16 16:47:07 +00:00

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