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David Majda 7134b09e50 Merge |allocateRegisters| and |computeParams| passes
The purpose of this change is to avoid the need to index register
variables storing match results of sequences whose elements are labeled.
The indexing happened when match results of labeled elements were passed
to action/predicate functions.

In order to avoid indexing, the register allocator needs to ensure that
registers storing match results of any labeled sequence elements are
still "alive" after finishing parsing of the sequence. They should not
be used to store anything else at least until code of all actions and
predicates that can see the labels is executed. This requires that the
|allocateRegisters| pass has the knowledge of scoping. Because that
knowledge was already implicitly embedded in the |coputeParams| pass,
the logical step to prevent duplication was to merge it with the
|allocateRegisters| pass. This is what this commit does.

As a part of the merge the tests of both passes were largely refactored.
This is both to accomodate the merge and to make the tests in sync with
the code again (the tests became a bit out-of-sync during the last few
commits -- they tested more than was needed).

The speed/size impact is slightly positive:

Speed impact
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Before:     849.86 kB/s
After:      858.16 kB/s
Difference: 0.97%

Size impact
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Before:     876618 b
After:      875602 b
Difference: -0.12%

(Measured by /tools/impact with Node.js v0.6.18 on x86_64 GNU/Linux.)
12 years ago
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allocate-registers.spec.js Merge |allocateRegisters| and |computeParams| passes 12 years ago
remove-proxy-rules.spec.js Change ordering of "action" code 13 years ago
report-left-recursion.spec.js Change ordering of "action" code 13 years ago
report-missing-rules.spec.js Change ordering of "action" code 13 years ago