J. Nick Koston bcdb384bbe [api] Collapse the three protobuf decode virtuals into one ...

Every decodable message overrode up to three virtuals, one per wire
type, so each carried a five slot vtable and up to three functions
with their own prologue and return tails. The shared decode loop now
parses the payload for the wire type into a ProtoFieldValue and calls
a single decode_field() virtual with the tag, the field number and the
wire type; the generated override is one switch.

The switch key is chosen per target through PROTO_DECODE_KEY. Embedded
builds compile switches to compare chains (ESP-IDF passes
-fno-jump-tables), so they key on the full wire tag, one compare per
field with no separate wire type check. The host compiler builds a
jump table for the dense field number switch, so there the key is the
field number and PROTO_DECODE_GUARD rejects a mismatched wire type.
Both forms drop a field that arrives with a wire type it does not
declare, exactly as the per wire type virtuals did.

Per decodable message the vtable shrinks from 20 to 12 bytes on
xtensa and the extra decode functions fold into one; the shared loop
shrinks as well. Host instruction counts per decoded field are
unchanged apart from the guard compare, which replaces the prologue of
the separate function it used to call.

2026-09-07 15:24:32 +02:00

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api_protobuf.py

[api] Collapse the three protobuf decode virtuals into one

2026-09-07 15:24:32 +02:00