Currently, we're generating adjustments, for example, to get from &[u8]
to &[u8], which is unneeded and kicks us out of trans_into() into
trans() which means an additional stack slot and copy in the unoptimized
code.
[breaking-change] for lint authors
You must now implement LateLintPass or EarlyLintPass as well as LintPass and use either register_late_lint_pass or register_early_lint_pass, rather than register_lint_pass.
There is a minor [breaking-change] for lint authors - some functions which were previously defined on `lint::Context` have moved to a trait - `LintContext`, you may need to import that trait to avoid name resolution errors.
This branch improves the performance of Ord and PartialOrd methods for slices compared to the iter-based implementation.
Based on the approach used in #26884.
In order to get rid of all range checks, the compiler needs to
explicitly see that the slices it iterates over are as long as the
loop variable upper bound.
This further improves the performance of slice comparison:
```
test u8_cmp ... bench: 4,761 ns/iter (+/- 1,203)
test u8_lt ... bench: 4,579 ns/iter (+/- 649)
test u8_partial_cmp ... bench: 4,768 ns/iter (+/- 761)
test u16_cmp ... bench: 4,607 ns/iter (+/- 580)
test u16_lt ... bench: 4,681 ns/iter (+/- 567)
test u16_partial_cmp ... bench: 4,607 ns/iter (+/- 967)
test u32_cmp ... bench: 4,448 ns/iter (+/- 891)
test u32_lt ... bench: 4,546 ns/iter (+/- 992)
test u32_partial_cmp ... bench: 4,415 ns/iter (+/- 646)
test u64_cmp ... bench: 4,380 ns/iter (+/- 1,184)
test u64_lt ... bench: 5,684 ns/iter (+/- 602)
test u64_partial_cmp ... bench: 4,663 ns/iter (+/- 1,158)
```
Reusing the same idea as in #26884, we can exploit the fact that the
length of slices is known, hence we can use a counted loop instead of
iterators, which means that we only need a single counter, instead of
having to increment and check one pointer for each iterator.
Using the generic implementation of the boolean comparison operators
(`lt`, `le`, `gt`, `ge`) provides further speedup for simple
types. This happens because the loop scans elements checking for
equality and dispatches to element comparison or length comparison
depending on the result of the prefix comparison.
```
test u8_cmp ... bench: 14,043 ns/iter (+/- 1,732)
test u8_lt ... bench: 16,156 ns/iter (+/- 1,864)
test u8_partial_cmp ... bench: 16,250 ns/iter (+/- 2,608)
test u16_cmp ... bench: 15,764 ns/iter (+/- 1,420)
test u16_lt ... bench: 19,833 ns/iter (+/- 2,826)
test u16_partial_cmp ... bench: 19,811 ns/iter (+/- 2,240)
test u32_cmp ... bench: 15,792 ns/iter (+/- 3,409)
test u32_lt ... bench: 18,577 ns/iter (+/- 2,075)
test u32_partial_cmp ... bench: 18,603 ns/iter (+/- 5,666)
test u64_cmp ... bench: 16,337 ns/iter (+/- 2,511)
test u64_lt ... bench: 18,074 ns/iter (+/- 7,914)
test u64_partial_cmp ... bench: 17,909 ns/iter (+/- 1,105)
```
```
test u8_cmp ... bench: 6,511 ns/iter (+/- 982)
test u8_lt ... bench: 6,671 ns/iter (+/- 919)
test u8_partial_cmp ... bench: 7,118 ns/iter (+/- 1,623)
test u16_cmp ... bench: 6,689 ns/iter (+/- 921)
test u16_lt ... bench: 6,712 ns/iter (+/- 947)
test u16_partial_cmp ... bench: 6,725 ns/iter (+/- 780)
test u32_cmp ... bench: 7,704 ns/iter (+/- 1,294)
test u32_lt ... bench: 7,611 ns/iter (+/- 3,062)
test u32_partial_cmp ... bench: 7,640 ns/iter (+/- 1,149)
test u64_cmp ... bench: 7,517 ns/iter (+/- 2,164)
test u64_lt ... bench: 7,579 ns/iter (+/- 1,048)
test u64_partial_cmp ... bench: 7,629 ns/iter (+/- 1,195)
```
Knowing the result of equality comparison can enable additional
optimizations in LLVM.
Additionally, this makes it obvious that `partial_cmp` on totally
ordered types cannot return `None`.
