The resulting symbol names aren't very pretty at all:
trait Trait { fn method(&self); }
impl<'a> Trait for ~[(&'a int, fn())] { fn method(&self) {} }
gives
Trait$$UP$$VEC$$TUP_2$$BP$int$$FN$$::method::...hash...::v0.0
However, at least it contain some reference to the Self type, unlike
`Trait$__extensions__::method:...`, which is what the symbol name used
to be for anything other than `impl Trait for foo::bar::Baz` (which
became, and still becomes, `Trait$Baz::method`).
This uses quite a bit of unsafe code for speed and failure safety, and allocates `2*n` temporary storage.
[Performance](https://gist.github.com/huonw/5547f2478380288a28c2):
| n | new | priority_queue | quick3 |
|-------:|---------:|---------------:|---------:|
| 5 | 200 | 155 | 106 |
| 100 | 6490 | 8750 | 5810 |
| 10000 | 1300000 | 1790000 | 1060000 |
| 100000 | 16700000 | 23600000 | 12700000 |
| sorted | 520000 | 1380000 | 53900000 |
| trend | 1310000 | 1690000 | 1100000 |
(The times are in nanoseconds, having subtracted the set-up time (i.e. the `just_generate` bench target).)
I imagine that there is still significant room for improvement, particularly because both priority_queue and quick3 are doing a static call via `Ord` or `TotalOrd` for the comparisons, while this is using a (boxed) closure.
Also, this code does not `clone`, unlike `quick_sort3`; and is stable, unlike both of the others.
We were previously reading metadata via `ar p`, but as learned from rustdoc
awhile back, spawning a process to do something is pretty slow. Turns out LLVM
has an Archive class to read archives, but it cannot write archives.
This commits adds bindings to the read-only version of the LLVM archive class
(with a new type that only has a read() method), and then it uses this class
when reading the metadata out of rlibs. When you put this in tandem of not
compressing the metadata, reading the metadata is 4x faster than it used to be
The timings I got for reading metadata from the respective libraries was:
libstd-04ff901e-0.9-pre.dylib => 100ms
libstd-04ff901e-0.9-pre.rlib => 23ms
librustuv-7945354c-0.9-pre.dylib => 4ms
librustuv-7945354c-0.9-pre.rlib => 1ms
librustc-5b94a16f-0.9-pre.dylib => 87ms
librustc-5b94a16f-0.9-pre.rlib => 35ms
libextra-a6ebb16f-0.9-pre.dylib => 63ms
libextra-a6ebb16f-0.9-pre.rlib => 15ms
libsyntax-2e4c0458-0.9-pre.dylib => 86ms
libsyntax-2e4c0458-0.9-pre.rlib => 22ms
In order to always take advantage of these faster metadata read-times, I sort
the files in filesearch based on whether they have an rlib extension or not
(prefer all rlib files first).
Overall, this halved the compile time for a `fn main() {}` crate from 0.185s to
0.095s on my system (when preferring dynamic linking). Reading metadata is still
the slowest pass of the compiler at 0.035s, but it's getting pretty close to
linking at 0.021s! The next best optimization is to just not copy the metadata
from LLVM because that's the most expensive part of reading metadata right now.
We were previously reading metadata via `ar p`, but as learned from rustdoc
awhile back, spawning a process to do something is pretty slow. Turns out LLVM
has an Archive class to read archives, but it cannot write archives.
This commits adds bindings to the read-only version of the LLVM archive class
(with a new type that only has a read() method), and then it uses this class
when reading the metadata out of rlibs. When you put this in tandem of not
compressing the metadata, reading the metadata is 4x faster than it used to be
The timings I got for reading metadata from the respective libraries was:
libstd-04ff901e-0.9-pre.dylib => 100ms
libstd-04ff901e-0.9-pre.rlib => 23ms
librustuv-7945354c-0.9-pre.dylib => 4ms
librustuv-7945354c-0.9-pre.rlib => 1ms
librustc-5b94a16f-0.9-pre.dylib => 87ms
librustc-5b94a16f-0.9-pre.rlib => 35ms
libextra-a6ebb16f-0.9-pre.dylib => 63ms
libextra-a6ebb16f-0.9-pre.rlib => 15ms
libsyntax-2e4c0458-0.9-pre.dylib => 86ms
libsyntax-2e4c0458-0.9-pre.rlib => 22ms
In order to always take advantage of these faster metadata read-times, I sort
the files in filesearch based on whether they have an rlib extension or not
(prefer all rlib files first).
Overall, this halved the compile time for a `fn main() {}` crate from 0.185s to
0.095s on my system (when preferring dynamic linking). Reading metadata is still
the slowest pass of the compiler at 0.035s, but it's getting pretty close to
linking at 0.021s! The next best optimization is to just not copy the metadata
from LLVM because that's the most expensive part of reading metadata right now.
Now that the metadata is an owned value with a lifetime of a borrowed byte
slice, it's possible to have future optimizations where the metadata doesn't
need to be copied around (very expensive operation).
Now that the metadata is an owned value with a lifetime of a borrowed byte
slice, it's possible to have future optimizations where the metadata doesn't
need to be copied around (very expensive operation).
