This is essentially a long-belated follow-up to Arnold's #12606.
The key observation here is that the enum-tag-single-payload witnesses
are strictly more powerful than the XI witnesses: you can simulate
the XI witnesses by using an extra case count that's <= the XI count.
Of course the result is less efficient than the XI witnesses, but
that's less important than overall code size, and we can work on
fast-paths for that.
The extra inhabitant count is stored in a 32-bit field (always present)
following the ValueWitnessFlags, which now occupy a fixed 32 bits.
This inflates non-XI VWTs on 32-bit targets by a word, but the net effect
on XI VWTs is to shrink them by two words, which is likely to be the
more important change. Also, being able to access the XI count directly
should be a nice win.
This runtime function doesn’t always perform instantiation; it’s how we
get a witness table given a conformance, type, and set of instantiation
arguments. Name it accordingly.
Witness table accessors return a witness table for a given type's
conformance to a protocol. They are called directly from IRGen
(when we need the witness table instance) and from runtime conformance
checking (swift_conformsToProtocol digs the access function out of the
protocol conformance record). They have two interesting functions:
1) For witness tables requiring instantiation, they call
swift_instantiateWitnessTable directly.
2) For synthesized witness tables that might not be unique, they call
swift_getForeignWitnessTable.
Extend swift_instantiateWitnessTable() to handle both runtime
uniquing (for #2) as well as handling witness tables that don't have
a "generic table", i.e., don't need any actual instantiation. Use it
as the universal entry point for "get a witness table given a specific
conformance descriptor and type", eliminating witness table accessors
entirely.
Make a few related simplifications:
* Drop the "pattern" from the generic witness table. Instead, store
the pattern in the main part of the conformance descriptor, always.
* Drop the "conformance kind" from the protocol conformance
descriptor, since it was only there to distinguish between witness
table (pattern) vs. witness table accessor.
* Internalize swift_getForeignWitnessTable(); IRGen no longer needs to
call it.
Reduces the code size of the standard library (+assertions build) by
~149k.
Addresses rdar://problem/45489388.
If a type has the same layout as one of the basic integer types, or has a single refcounted pointer representation, we can use prefab value witness tables from the runtime instead of instantiating new ones. This saves quite a bit of code size, particularly in the Apple SDK overlays, where there are lots of swift_newtype wrappers and option set structs.
* Remove RegisterPreservingCC. It was unused.
* Remove DefaultCC from the runtime. The distinction between C_CC and DefaultCC
was unused and inconsistently applied. Separate C_CC and DefaultCC are
still present in the compiler.
* Remove function pointer indirection from runtime functions except those
that are used by Instruments. The remaining Instruments interface is
expected to change later due to function pointer liability.
* Remove swift_rt_ wrappers. Function pointers are an ABI liability that we
don't want, and there are better ways to get nonlazy binding if we need it.
The fully custom wrappers were only needed for RegisterPreservingCC and
for optimizing the Instruments function pointers.
- Create the value witness table as a separate global object instead
of concatenating it to the metadata pattern.
- Always pass the metadata to the runtime and let the runtime handle
instantiating or modifying the value witness table.
- Pass the right layout algorithm version to the runtime; currently
this is always "Swift 5".
- Create a runtime function to instantiate single-case enums.
Among other things, this makes the copying of the VWT, and any
modifications of it, explicit and in the runtime, which is more
future-proof.
* IRGen: Change c-o-w existential implementation functions
* initialzeBufferWith(Copy|Take)OfBuffer value witness implementation for cow existentials
Implement and use initialzeBufferWith(Copy|Take)OfBuffer value witnesses for
copy-on-write existentials.
Before we used a free standing function but the overhead of doing so was
noticable (~20-30%) on micro benchmarks.
* IRGen: Use common getCopyOutOfLineBoxPointerFunction
* Add a runtime function to conditionally make a box unique
* Fix compilation of HeapObject.cpp on i386
* Fix IRGen test case
* Fix test case for i386
