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Erik Eckstein
f9b524b1cb AliasAnalysis: a complete overhaul of alias- and memory-behavior analysis
The main changes are:

*) Rewrite everything in swift. So far, parts of memory-behavior analysis were already implemented in swift. Now everything is done in swift and lives in `AliasAnalysis.swift`. This is a big code simplification.

*) Support many more instructions in the memory-behavior analysis - especially OSSA instructions, like `begin_borrow`, `end_borrow`, `store_borrow`, `load_borrow`. The computation of end_borrow effects is now much more precise. Also, partial_apply is now handled more precisely.

*) Simplify and reduce type-based alias analysis (TBAA). The complexity of the old TBAA comes from old days where the language and SIL didn't have strict aliasing and exclusivity rules (e.g. for inout arguments). Now TBAA is only needed for code using unsafe pointers. The new TBAA handles this - and not more. Note that TBAA for classes is already done in `AccessBase.isDistinct`.

*) Handle aliasing in `begin_access [modify]` scopes. We already supported truly immutable scopes like `begin_access [read]` or `ref_element_addr [immutable]`. For `begin_access [modify]` we know that there are no other reads or writes to the access-address within the scope.

*) Don't cache memory-behavior results. It turned out that the hit-miss rate was pretty bad (~ 1:7). The overhead of the cache lookup took as long as recomputing the memory behavior.
2024-07-29 17:33:46 +02:00
Erik Eckstein
fa1ecff143 Swift Optimizer: rewrite the MemBehaviorDumper test pass in swift. 2023-05-09 08:25:09 +02:00
Erik Eckstein
d4d1620f28 Swift SIL: rework Instruction and BasicBlock lists to support deleting instructions during iteration
Replace the generic `List` with the (non-generic) `InstructionList` and `BasicBlockList`.
The `InstructionList` is now a bit different than the `BasicBlockList` because it supports that instructions are deleted while iterating over the list.
Also add a test pass which tests instruction modification while iteration.
2022-12-12 19:08:57 +01:00
Erik Eckstein
81ac311c83 Swift Optimizer: add the DeadEndBlocks utility for finding dead-end blocks.
Dead-end blocks are blocks from which there is no path to the function exit (`return`, `throw` or unwind).
These are blocks which end with an unreachable instruction and blocks from which all paths end in "unreachable" blocks.
2022-10-05 07:37:41 +02:00
Erik Eckstein
a12e33e9e9 Swift Optimizer: add the FunctionUses utility
Provides a list of instructions, which reference a function.

A function "use" is an instruction in another (or the same) function which references the function.
In most cases those are `function_ref` instructions, but can also be e.g. `keypath` instructions.

'FunctionUses' performs an analysis of all functions in the module and collects instructions which reference other functions.
This utility can be used to do inter-procedural caller-analysis.
2022-08-24 17:55:02 +02:00
Erik Eckstein
c2ef10661a Swift Optimizer: move function passes which are only used for unit testing to their own TestPasses directory. 2022-08-24 17:54:46 +02:00