* Replace the uniqueness result of a begin_cow_mutation of an empty Array/Set/Dictionary singleton with zero.
* Remove empty begin_cow_mutation - end_cow_mutation pairs
* Remove empty end_cow_mutation - begin_cow_mutation pairs
ARC operations don't have an effect on immortal objects, like the empty array singleton or statically allocated arrays.
Therefore we can freely remove and retain/release instructions on such objects, even if there is no paired balanced ARC operation.
This optimization can only be done with a minimum deployment target of Swift 5.1, because in that version we added immortal ref count bits.
The optimization is implemented in libswift. Additionally, the remaining logic of simplifying strong_retain and strong_release is also ported to libswift.
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Instruction passes are basically visit functions in SILCombine for a specific instruction type.
With the macro SWIFT_INSTRUCTION_PASS such a pass can be declared in Passes.def.
SILCombine then calls the run function of the pass in libswift.
With the macro SWIFT_FUNCTION_PASS a new libswift function pass can be defined in Passes.def.
The SWIFT_FUNCTION_PASS_WITH_LEGACY is similar, but it allows to keep an original C++ “legacy” implementation of the pass, which is used if the compiler is not built with libswift.
This is the initial version of a buildable SIL definition in libswift.
It defines an initial set of SIL classes, like Function, BasicBlock, Instruction, Argument, and a few instruction classes.
The interface between C++ and SIL is a bridging layer, implemented in C.
It contains all the required bridging data structures used to access various SIL data structures.
* add the (still empty) libswift package
* add build support for libswift in CMake
* add libswift to swift-frontend and sil-opt
The build can be controlled with the LIBSWIFT_BUILD_MODE cmake variable: by default it’s “DISABLE”, which means that libswift is not built. If it’s “HOSTTOOLS”, libswift is built with a pre-installed toolchain on the host system.
