rust/compiler/rustc_middle
bors f00c139998 Auto merge of #110050 - saethlin:better-u32-encoding, r=nnethercote
Use a specialized varint + bitpacking scheme for DepGraph encoding

The previous scheme here uses leb128 to encode the edge tables that represent the incr comp dependency graph. The problem with that scheme is that leb128 has overhead for larger values, and generally relies on the distribution of encoded values being heavily skewed towards smaller values. That is definitely not the case for a dep node index, since they are handed out sequentially and the whole range is covered, the distribution is actually biased in the opposite direction: Most dep nodes are large.

This PR implements a different varint encoding scheme. Instead of applying varint encoding to individual dep node indices (which is extremely branchy) we now apply it per node.

While being built, each node now stores its edges in a `SmallVec` with a bit of extra logic to track the max value of each edge. Then we varint encode the whole batch. This is a gamble: We save on space by only claiming 2 bits per node instead of ~3 bits per edge which is a nice savings but needs to balance out with the space overhead that a single large index in a node with a lot of edges will encode unnecessary bytes in each of that node's edge indices.

Then, to keep the runtime overhead of this encoding scheme down we deserialize our indices by loading 4 bytes for each then masking off the bytes that are't ours. This is much less code and branches than leb128, but relies on having some readable bytes past the end of each edge list. We explicitly add such padding to the in-memory data during decoding. And we also do this decoding lazily, turning a dense on-disk encoding into a peak memory reduction.

Then we apply a bit-packing scheme; since in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/115391 we now have unused bits on `DepKind`, we use those unused bits (currently there are 7!) to store the 2 bits that we need for the byte width of the edges in each node, then use the remaining bits to store the length of the edge list, if it fits.

r? `@nnethercote`
2023-09-07 02:09:41 +00:00
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