The new implementation has several benefits compared to the old C++ implementation:
* It is significantly simpler. It optimizes each load separately instead of all at once with bit-field based dataflow.
* It's using alias analysis more accurately which enables more loads to be optimized
* It avoids inserting additional copies in OSSA
The algorithm is a data flow analysis which starts at the original load and searches for preceding stores or loads by following the control flow in backward direction.
The preceding stores and loads provide the "available values" with which the original load can be replaced.
The old C++ pass didn't catch a few cases.
Also:
* The new pass is significantly simpler: it doesn't perform dataflow for _all_ memory locations at once using bitfields, but handles each store separately. (In both implementations there is a complexity limit in place to avoid quadratic complexity)
* The new pass works with OSSA
It sets the `[bare]` attribute for `alloc_ref` and `global_value` instructions if their header (reference count and metatype) is not used throughout the lifetime of the object.
This allows to run the NamedReturnValueOptimization only late in the pipeline.
The optimization shouldn't be done before serialization, because it might prevent predictable memory optimizations in the caller after inlining.
It converts a lazily initialized global to a statically initialized global variable.
When this pass runs on a global initializer `[global_init_once_fn]` it tries to create a static initializer for the initialized global.
```
sil [global_init_once_fn] @globalinit {
alloc_global @the_global
%a = global_addr @the_global
%i = some_const_initializer_insts
store %i to %a
}
```
The pass creates a static initializer for the global:
```
sil_global @the_global = {
%initval = some_const_initializer_insts
}
```
and removes the allocation and store instructions from the initializer function:
```
sil [global_init_once_fn] @globalinit {
%a = global_addr @the_global
%i = some_const_initializer_insts
}
```
The initializer then becomes a side-effect free function which let's the builtin-simplification remove the `builtin "once"` which calls the initializer.
If a `debug_step` has the same debug location as a previous or succeeding instruction it is removed.
It's just important that there is at least one instruction for a certain debug location so that single stepping on that location will work.
Computes the side effects for a function, which consists of argument- and global effects.
This is similar to the ComputeEscapeEffects pass, just for side-effects.
Removes redundant ObjectiveC <-> Swift bridging calls.
Basically, if a value is bridged from ObjectiveC to Swift an then back to ObjectiveC again, then just re-use the original ObjectiveC value.
Also in this commit: add an additional DCE pass before ownership elimination. It can cleanup dead code which is left behind by the ObjCBridgingOptimization.
rdar://89987440
The ComputeEffects pass derives escape information for function arguments and adds those effects in the function.
This needs a lot of changes in check-lines in the tests, because the effects are printed in SIL
The ComputeEffects pass derives escape information for function arguments and adds those effects in the function.
This needs a lot of changes in check-lines in the tests, because the effects are printed in SIL
The `run-unit-tests` is a "pseudo" pass which is invoked from sil-opt and runs all the unit tests, implemented in Swift.
This is done from the `swift-unit-tests.sil` lit test.
