The main changes are:
*) Rewrite everything in swift. So far, parts of memory-behavior analysis were already implemented in swift. Now everything is done in swift and lives in `AliasAnalysis.swift`. This is a big code simplification.
*) Support many more instructions in the memory-behavior analysis - especially OSSA instructions, like `begin_borrow`, `end_borrow`, `store_borrow`, `load_borrow`. The computation of end_borrow effects is now much more precise. Also, partial_apply is now handled more precisely.
*) Simplify and reduce type-based alias analysis (TBAA). The complexity of the old TBAA comes from old days where the language and SIL didn't have strict aliasing and exclusivity rules (e.g. for inout arguments). Now TBAA is only needed for code using unsafe pointers. The new TBAA handles this - and not more. Note that TBAA for classes is already done in `AccessBase.isDistinct`.
*) Handle aliasing in `begin_access [modify]` scopes. We already supported truly immutable scopes like `begin_access [read]` or `ref_element_addr [immutable]`. For `begin_access [modify]` we know that there are no other reads or writes to the access-address within the scope.
*) Don't cache memory-behavior results. It turned out that the hit-miss rate was pretty bad (~ 1:7). The overhead of the cache lookup took as long as recomputing the memory behavior.
Enable KeyPath/AnyKeyPath/PartialKeyPath/WritableKeyPath in Embedded Swift, but
for compile-time use only:
- Add keypath optimizations into the mandatory optimizations pipeline
- Allow keypath optimizations to look through begin_borrow, to make them work
even in OSSA.
- If a use of a KeyPath doesn't optimize away, diagnose in PerformanceDiagnostics
- Make UnsafePointer.pointer(to:) transparent to allow the keypath optimization
to happen in the callers of UnsafePointer.pointer(to:).
Specifies that the optimizer and IRGen must not add runtime calls which are not in the function originally.
This attribute is set for functions with performance constraints or functions which are called from functions with performance.
It notifies the pass manager that the optimization result of the current pass depends on the body (i.e. SIL instructions) of another function than the currently optimized one.
Optionally, the dependency to the initialization of the global can be specified with a dependency token `depends_on <token>`.
This is usually a `builtin "once"` which calls the initializer for the global variable.
Layers:
- FunctionConvention: AST FunctionType: results, parameters
- ArgumentConventions: SIL function arguments
- ApplyOperandConventions: applied operands
The meaning of an integer index is determined by the collection
type. All the mapping between the various indices (results,
parameters, SIL argument, applied arguments) is restricted to the
collection type that owns that mapping. Remove the concept of a
"caller argument index".
In regular swift this is a nice optimization. In embedded swift it's a requirement, because the compiler needs to be able to specialize generic deinits of non-copyable types.
The new de-virtualization utilities are called from two places:
* from the new DeinitDevirtualizer pass. It replaces the old MoveOnlyDeinitDevirtualization, which is very basic and does not fulfill the needs for embedded swift.
* from MandatoryPerformanceOptimizations for embedded swift
ASTGen always builds with the host Swift compiler, without requiring
bootstrapping, and is enabled in more places. Move the regex literal
parsing logic there so it is enabled in more host environments, and
makes use of CMake's Swift support. Enable all of the regex literal
tests when ASTGen is built, to ensure everything is working.
Remove the "AST" and "Parse" Swift modules from SwiftCompilerSources,
because they are no longer needed.
Make filter APIs for UseList chainable by adding them to Sequence where Element == Operand
For example, it allows to write:
```
let singleUse = value.uses.ignoreDebugUses.ignoreUsers(ofType: EndAccessInst.self).singleUse
```
Also, add `UseList.getSingleUser(notOfType:)`
Introduce two modes of bridging:
* inline mode: this is basically how it worked so far. Using full C++ interop which allows bridging functions to be inlined.
* pure mode: bridging functions are not inlined but compiled in a cpp file. This allows to reduce the C++ interop requirements to a minimum. No std/llvm/swift headers are imported.
This change requires a major refactoring of bridging sources. The implementation of bridging functions go to two separate files: SILBridgingImpl.h and OptimizerBridgingImpl.h.
Depending on the mode, those files are either included in the corresponding header files (inline mode), or included in the c++ file (pure mode).
The mode can be selected with the BRIDGING_MODE cmake variable. By default it is set to the inline mode (= existing behavior). The pure mode is only selected in certain configurations to work around C++ interop issues:
* In debug builds, to workaround a problem with LLDB's `po` command (rdar://115770255).
* On windows to workaround a build problem.
All SILArgument types are "block arguments". There are three kinds:
1. Function arguments
2. Phis
3. Terminator results
In every situation where the source of the block argument matters, we
need to distinguish between these three. Accidentally failing to
handle one of the cases is an perpetual source of compiler
bugs. Attempting to handle both phis and terminator results uniformly
is *always* a bug, especially once OSSA has phi flags. Even when all
cases are handled correctly, the code that deals with data flow across
blocks is incomprehensible without giving each case a type. This
continues to be a massive waste of time literally every time I review
code that involves cross-block control flow.
Unfortunately, we don't have these C++ types yet (nothing big is
blocking that, it just wasn't done). That's manageable because we can
use wrapper types on the Swift side for now. Wrapper types don't
create any more complexity than protocols, but they do sacrifice some
usability in switch cases.
There is no reason for a BlockArgument type. First, a function
argument is a block argument just as much as any other. BlockArgument
provides no useful information beyond Argument. And it is nearly
always a mistake to care about whether a value is a function argument
and not care whether it is a phi or terminator result.
Although empty blocks are cleaned up at the end of every Simplification pass, it's not legal SIL to have empty blocks and subsequent simplification passes may crash because of this.
rdar://115169880
The `bare` attribute indicates that the object header is not used throughout the lifetime of the value.
This means, no reference counting operations are performed on the object and its metadata is not used.
The header of bare objects doesn't need to be initialized.
The `bare` attribute indicates that the object header is not used throughout the lifetime of the object.
This means, no reference counting operations are performed on the object and its metadata is not used.
The header of bare objects doesn't need to be initialized.
* add the StaticInitCloner utility
* remove bridging of `copyStaticInitializer` and `createStaticInitializer`
* add `Context.mangleOutlinedVariable` and `Context.createGlobalVariable`
* move the apply of partial_apply transformation from simplify-apply to simplify-partial_apply
* delete dead partial_apply instructions
* devirtualize apply, try_apply and begin_apply
