"minimal" is defined as the set of requirements that would be
passed to a function with the type's generic signature that
takes the thick metadata of the parent type as its only argument.
Most notably, the source caches did not respect dominance. The
simplest solution was just to drop them in favor of the ordinary
caching system; this is unfortunate because it requires walking
over the path twice instead of exploiting the trie, but it's much
easier to make this work, especially in combination with the other
caching mechanisms at play.
This will be tested by later commits that enable lazy-loading of
local type data in various contexts.
There are several interesting new features here.
The first is that, when emitting a SILFunction, we're now able to
cache type data according to the full dominance structure of the
original function. For example, if we ask for type metadata, and
we've already computed it in a dominating position, we're now able
to re-use that value; previously, we were limited to only doing this
if the value was from the entry block or the LLVM basic block
matched exactly. Since this tracks the SIL dominance relationship,
things in IRGen which add their own control flow must be careful
to suppress caching within blocks that may not dominate the
fallthrough; this mechanism is currently very crude, but could be
made to allow a limited amount of caching within the
conditionally-executed blocks.
This query is done using a proper dominator tree analysis, even at -O0.
I do not expect that we will frequently need to actually build the
tree, and I expect that the code-size benefits of doing a real
analysis will be significant, especially as we move towards making
more metadata lazily computed.
The second feature is that this adds support for "abstract"
cache entries, which indicate that we know how to derive the metadata
but haven't actually done so. This code isn't yet tested, but
it's going to be the basis of making a lot of things much lazier.
of associated types in protocol witness tables.
We use the global access functions when the result isn't
dependent, and a simple accessor when the result can be cheaply
recovered from the conforming metadata. Otherwise, we add a
cache slot to a private section of the witness table, forcing
an instantiation per conformance. Like generic type metadata,
concrete instantiations of generic conformances are memoized.
There's a fair amount of code in this patch that can't be
dynamically tested at the moment because of the widespread
reliance on recursive expansion of archetypes / dependent
types. That's something we're now theoretically in a position
to change, and as we do so, we'll test more of this code.
This speculatively re-applies 7576a91009,
i.e. reverts commit 11ab3d537f.
We have not been able to duplicate the build failure in
independent testing; it might have been spurious or unrelated.
of associated types in protocol witness tables.
We use the global access functions when the result isn't
dependent, and a simple accessor when the result can be cheaply
recovered from the conforming metadata. Otherwise, we add a
cache slot to a private section of the witness table, forcing
an instantiation per conformance. Like generic type metadata,
concrete instantiations of generic conformances are memoized.
There's a fair amount of code in this patch that can't be
dynamically tested at the moment because of the widespread
reliance on recursive expansion of archetypes / dependent
types. That's something we're now theoretically in a position
to change, and as we do so, we'll test more of this code.
This reverts commit 6528ec2887, i.e.
it reapplies b1e3120a28, with a fix
to unbreak release builds.
This reverts commit b1e3120a28.
Reverting because this patch uses WitnessTableBuilder::PI in NDEBUG code.
That field only exists when NDEBUG is not defined, but now NextCacheIndex, a
field that exists regardless, is being updated based on information from PI.
This problem means that Release builds do not work.
of associated types in protocol witness tables.
We use the global access functions when the result isn't
dependent, and a simple accessor when the result can be cheaply
recovered from the conforming metadata. Otherwise, we add a
cache slot to a private section of the witness table, forcing
an instantiation per conformance. Like generic type metadata,
concrete instantiations of generic conformances are memoized.
There's a fair amount of code in this patch that can't be
dynamically tested at the moment because of the widespread
reliance on recursive expansion of archetypes / dependent
types. That's something we're now theoretically in a position
to change, and as we do so, we'll test more of this code.
which allows the use of an arbitrary-length path.
Eventually, this will also allow us to be much lazier in IRGen
about actually materializing such information in a function;
but for now, leave the existing code-generation patterns intact.
Swift SVN r32454
