Before we start addressing the issue with having
a lot of false positives when using debugify in
the original mode, we have made a few patches that
should speed up the execution of the testing
utility Passes.
For example, when testing a large project
(let's say LLVM project itself), we can face
a lot of potential DI issues. Usually, we use
-verify-each-debuginfo-preserve (that is very
similar to -debugify-each) -- it collects
DI metadata before each Pass, and after the Pass
it checks if the Pass preserved the DI metadata.
However, we can speed up this process, since we
don't need to collect DI metadata before each
Pass -- we could use the DI metadata that are
collected after the previous Pass from
the pipeline as an input for the next Pass.
This patch speeds up the utility for ~2x.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D115622
IRgen optimization opportunities.
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The common pattern of
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short x; // or char, etc
(x == 10)
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generates an zext/sext of x which can easily be avoided.
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Bitfields accesses can be shifted to simplify masking and sign
extension. For example, if the bitfield width is 8 and it is
appropriately aligned then is is a lot shorter to just load the char
directly.
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It may be worth avoiding creation of alloca's for formal arguments
for the common situation where the argument is never written to or has
its address taken. The idea would be to begin generating code by using
the argument directly and if its address is taken or it is stored to
then generate the alloca and patch up the existing code.
In theory, the same optimization could be a win for block local
variables as long as the declaration dominates all statements in the
block.
NOTE: The main case we care about this for is for -O0 -g compile time
performance, and in that scenario we will need to emit the alloca
anyway currently to emit proper debug info. So this is blocked by
being able to emit debug information which refers to an LLVM
temporary, not an alloca.
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We should try and avoid generating basic blocks which only contain
jumps. At -O0, this penalizes us all the way from IRgen (malloc &
instruction overhead), all the way down through code generation and
assembly time.
On 176.gcc:expr.ll, it looks like over 12% of basic blocks are just
direct branches!
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