Add wall clock time CSR and optimize interpreter#309
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WIP. This is a experiment on #308 .
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mcycleeverywhere in the interpreter and allows to make a more efficient interpreter hot loop, saving 1 instruction in the Fetch+Decode+Execute (down from 12 to 11 x86_64 instructions for theFENCEinstruction trace). My preliminary benchmarks says this improves about ~4% the emulator performance in fibonacci benchmark (will benchmark more later).It also introduces a new
mtimeCSR, declopping machine time from machine cycle, so the machine can effectively jump its wall clock. For instance this is used duringWFIinstructions, so now waiting many cycles in interactive mode does not incrementmcycleanymore.