Assertion failed: (NumUsePointsToFind > 0 && "There must be at least one
releasing instruction for an alloc"), function canPromoteAlloc
Revert "Fix comment for StackPromotion pass in SIL Passes"
Revert "Reapply the StackPromotion commit
0dd045ca04dcc10a33abf57f7e1b08260c4e3de1."
This reverts commit 3f4b1496bd and commit
199cfca13b.
It promotes allocations of native swift objects and array buffers to the stack if it is possible.
The SIL StackPromotion pass is the main part of the optimization. For details see comments there.
Unfortunately we need an additional LLVM pass to handle array buffers, which is not very nice.
I hope that we can get rid of it in future (again: for details see the comments in StackPromotion.cpp)
The optimization gives performance improvements in some benchmarks, mostly related to array literals:
ArrayLiteral: +12%
Combos: +16%
DictionaryLiteral: + 37%
RIPEMD: +10%
StringBuilder: +27%
StringInterpolation: +11%
And last but not least the new benchmark which is dedicated to test stack promotion:
ObjectAllocation: +52%
Now that one can not use analysis groups anymore on LLVM, we were given two
choices. Reinsert that dynamicism so we could via opt -load add in analyses /or/
just create our own version of opt. I decided to go with the later since it
enables us to simulate how IRGen sets up the LLVM pass pipeline exactly,
something we were unable to do before.
This also sets us up for whenever we need to respond to the new pass manager.
Swift SVN r32808
