static message chain

Rewrote Message + frame, only static linked list needed, not dynamic
frames either

lib/parfait/frame.rb

@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
 # A Message and a Frame make up the two sides of message passing:
 # A Message (see details there) is created by the sender and control is transferred
 # A Frame is created by the receiver
+# PS: it turns out that both messages and frames are created at compile, not run-time, and
+#  just constantly reused. Each message has a frame object ready and ist also linked
+#  to the next message.
+# The better way to say above is that a messages is *used* by the caller, and a frame by the callee.
 
 # In static languages these two objects are one, because the method is known at compile time.
 # In that case the whole frame is usually on the stack, for leaves even omitted and all data is
@@ -22,9 +26,5 @@
 
 module Parfait
   class Frame < Object
-    def initialize next_f
-      @next_frame = next_f
-      super()
-    end
   end
 end

lib/parfait/message.rb

@@ -2,14 +2,27 @@
 # A message is what is sent when you invoke a method. Args and stuff are packed up in to a Message
 # and the Message is sent to the receiver.
 
+# Part of the housekeeping (see attributes) makes messages a double linked list (next_message and
+#  caller) , and maybe surprisingly this means that we can create all messages at runtime
+# and link them up and never have to touch that list again.
+# All the args and receiver data changes, but the list of messages stays constant.
+
 module Parfait
   class Message < Object
-
     def initialize next_m
       @next_message = next_m
+      @frame = Frame.new()
+      @caller = nil
       super()
     end
 
+    attr_reader :next_message , :frame , :caller # aka prev_message
+    attr_reader :receiver ,  :return_address , :return_value , :method
+
+    def set_caller caller
+      @caller = caller
+    end
+
     def get_type_for(name)
       index = @layout.get_index(name)
       get_at(index)

lib/parfait/space.rb

@@ -27,19 +27,17 @@ module Parfait
       @classes = Parfait::Dictionary.new_object
       @syscall_message = nil  # a hack sto store the message during syscall
     end
-    attr_reader :classes , :next_message , :next_frame
+    attr_reader :classes , :first_message
 
     # need a two phase init for the object space (and generally parfait) because the space
     # is an interconnected graph, so not everthing is ready
     def late_init
-      counter = 0
-      @next_message = Message.new(nil)
-      @next_frame = Frame.new(nil)
-      5.times do |i|
-        @next_message = Message.new @next_message
-        @next_frame = Frame.new @next_frame
+      message = Message.new(nil)
+      5.times do
+        new_message = Message.new message
+        message.set_caller new_message
       end
-      @init_message = Message.new @next_message
+      @first_message = Message.new message
       init_layout
     end
 

lib/register/builtin/kernel.rb

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ module Register
           #Set up the Space as self upon init
           space = Parfait::Space.object_space
           function.info.add_code LoadConstant.new( space , Register.self_reg)
-          message_ind = Register.resolve_index( :space , :init_message )
+          message_ind = Register.resolve_index( :space , :first_message )
           # Load the message to new message register (r3)
           function.info.add_code Register.get_slot( :self , message_ind , :new_message)
           # And store the space as the new self (so the call can move it back as self)