This is a giant squashing of a lot of individual changes prototyping a
switch of String in Swift 5 to be natively encoded as UTF-8. It
includes what's necessary for a functional prototype, dropping some
history, but still leaves plenty of history available for future
commits.
My apologies to anyone trying to do code archeology between this
commit and the one prior. This was the lesser of evils.
* Removing FIXME from methods also marked always/never
* Unavailable/deprecated things don't need inlining
* Trivial implementations
* Enum namespaces
* Unsafe performance of opaque/raw pointer
* Dump doesn't need to be fast
* Error paths shouldn't require inlining
* Consistency with surrounding code
* Lazy performance needs specialization
Aggressively remove all `@inlinable` from any function that's
`@inline(never)` to see the impact.
`@inlinable @inline(never)` is a potential code smell. While it might
expose some optimization and specialization opportunities to the
optimizer, it's most commonly a sign that more thought is needed.
Adds some comments for sections of code that doesn't adopt the
visitation pattern, or have inefficiencies discovered as part of this
work. Additionally, mutating methods generally do not use the visitor
scheme.
Use the visitor pattern in most of the opaque-by-hand call
sites. Inspecting the compiler output does not show excessive and
unanticipated ARC, but there may need to be further tweaks.
One downside of the visitor pattern as written is that there's extra
shuffling around of registers for the closure CC. Hopefully this will
also be fixed soon.
Stop inlining _asOpaque into user code. Inlining it bloats user code
as there's a bit-test-and-branch to a block containing the _asOpaque
call, followed up some operations to e.g. manipulate the range or
re-align the calling convention, etc., followed by a final branch to
opaque stdlib code.
Instead, branch directly into opaque stdlib code. In theory, this
means that supporting all opaque patterns can be done with minimal
bloat. On ARM, this is a single tbnz instruction.
Include the initial implementation of _StringGuts, a 2-word
replacement for _LegacyStringCore. 64-bit Darwin supported, 32-bit and
Linux support in subsequent commits.
