Temporarily reverting @_specialize because stdlib unit tests are
failing on an internal branch during deserialization.
This reverts commit e2c43cfe14, reversing
changes made to 9078011f93.
This pass finds generic functions with @_specialized attributes and
generates specialized code for the attribute's concrete types. It
inserts type checks and guarded dispatch at the beginning of the
generic function for each specialization. Since we don't currently
expose this attribute as API and don't specialize vtables and witness
tables yet, the only way to reach the specialized code is by calling
the generic function which performs the guarded dispatch.
In the future, we can build on this work in several ways:
- cross module dispatch directly to specialized code
- dynamic dispatch directly to specialized code
- automated specialization based on less specific hints
- partial specialization
- and so on...
I reorganized and refactored the optimizer's generic utilities to
support direct function specialization as opposed to apply
specialization.
With this re-abstraction a specialized function has the same calling convention as if it would have been written with the specialized types in the first place.
In general this results in less alloc_stacks and load/stores.
It also can eliminate some re-abstraction thunks, e.g. if a generic closure is used in a non-generic context.
It some (hopefully rare) cases it may require to add re-abstraction thunks.
In case a function has multiple indirect results, only the first is converted to a direct result. This is an open TODO.
(Headers first)
It has been generally agreed that we need to do this reorg, and now
seems like the perfect time. Some major pass reorganization is in the
works.
This does not have to be the final word on the matter. The consensus
among those working on the code is that it's much better than what we
had and a better starting point for future bike shedding.
Note that the previous organization was designed to allow separate
analysis and optimization libraries. It turns out this is an
artificial distinction and not an important goal.
