.NET 3.5 JIT not working when running the application

It is a JIT optimizer bug. It is unrolling the inner loop but not updating the oVec.y value properly:

      for (oVec.x = 0; oVec.x < 2; oVec.x++) {
0000000a  xor         esi,esi                         ; oVec.x = 0
        for (oVec.y = 0; oVec.y < 2; oVec.y++) {
0000000c  mov         edi,2                           ; oVec.y = 2, WRONG!
          oDoesSomething.Do(oVec);
00000011  push        edi  
00000012  push        esi  
00000013  mov         ecx,ebx 
00000015  call        dword ptr ds:[00170210h]        ; first unrolled call
0000001b  push        edi                             ; WRONG! does not increment oVec.y
0000001c  push        esi  
0000001d  mov         ecx,ebx 
0000001f  call        dword ptr ds:[00170210h]        ; second unrolled call
      for (oVec.x = 0; oVec.x < 2; oVec.x++) {
00000025  inc         esi  
00000026  cmp         esi,2 
00000029  jl          0000000C 

The bug disappears when you let oVec.y increment to 4, that’s too many calls to unroll.

One workaround is this:

  for (int x = 0; x < 2; x++) {
    for (int y = 0; y < 2; y++) {
      oDoesSomething.Do(new IntVec(x, y));
    }
  }

UPDATE: re-checked in August 2012, this bug was fixed in the version 4.0.30319 jitter. But is still present in the v2.0.50727 jitter. It seems unlikely they’ll fix this in the old version after this long.

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