Currently, when creating a `RawSyntax` layout node, the `RawSyntax` constructor needs to iterate over all child nodes to
a) sum up their sub node count
b) add their arena as a child arena of the new node's arena
But we are already iterating over all child nodes in every place that calls these constructors. So instead of looping twice, we can perform the above operations in the loop that already exists and pass the parameters to the `RawSyntax` constructor, which spees up `RawSyntax` node creation.
To ensure the integrity of the `RawSyntax` tree, the passed in values are still validated in release builds.
For syntax nodes that previously didn’t have a `validate` method, the newly added `validate` method is a no-op. This will make validation easier in upcoming generic code.
Instead of having a heap-allocated RefCountedBox to store a SyntaxData's
parent, reference-count SyntaxData itself. This has a couple of
advantages:
- When passing SyntaxData around, only a pointer needs to be passed
instead of the entire struct contents. This is faster.
- We can later introduce a SyntaxDataRef, which behaves similar to
SyntaxData, but delegates the responsibility that the parent stays
alive to the user. While sacrificing guaranteed memory safety, this
means that SyntaxData can then be stack-allocated without any
ref-counting overhead.
Instead, only reference count the SyntaxArena that the RawSyntax nodes
live in. The user of RawSyntax nodes must guarantee that the SyntaxArena
stays alive as long as the RawSyntax nodes are being accessed.
During parse time, the SyntaxTreeCreator holds on to the SyntaxArena
in which it creates RawSyntax nodes. When inspecting a syntax tree,
the root SyntaxData node keeps the SyntaxArena alive. The change should
be mostly invisible to the users of the public libSyntax API.
This change significantly decreases the overall reference-counting
overhead. Since we were not able to free individual RawSyntax nodes
anyway, performing the reference-counting on the level of the
SyntaxArena feels natural.
Instead, reference count the SyntaxData's parent. This has a couple of
advantages:
1. We eliminate a const_cast that was potentially unsafe
2. It more closely resembles the architecture on the Swift side
3. It has the potential to be optimised further if the parent can be
accessed in an unsafe, non-reference-counted way
To represent a type with code completion.
type? '.'? <code-completion-token>
This is "parser only" node which is not exposed to SwiftSyntax.
Using this, defer to set the parsed type to code-completion callbacks.
ParsedSyntaxBuilder has a convenient function to add member to a syntax-collection
child. The function name uses the type name of the collection's members,
which can lead to name collision. This patch renames it.
To ensure SwiftSyntax calls a compatible parser library, this patch sets
up a C API that returns a constant string calculated during compilation time to indicate
the version of syntax node declarations. The same hash will be calculated
in the SwiftSyntax (client) side as well by using the same algorithm.
During runtime, SwiftSyntax will verify its hash value is identical to the
result of calling swiftparse_node_declaration_hash before actual
parsing happens.
This patch only sets the API up. The actual implementation of the
hashing algorithm will come later.
Introduced SyntaxArena for managing memory and cache.
SyntaxArena holds BumpPtrAllocator as a allocation storage.
RawSyntax is now able to be constructed with normal heap allocation, or
by SyntaxArena. RawSyntax has ManualMemory flag which indicates it's managed by
SyntaxArena. If the flag is true, its Retain()/Release() is no-op thus it's
never destructed by IntrusiveRefCntPtr.
This speedups the memory allocation for RawSyntax.
Also, in Syntax parsing, "token" RawSyntax is reused if:
a) It's not string literal with >16 length; and
b) It doesn't contain random text trivia (e.g. comment).
This reduces the overall allocation cost.
This patch adds a python function to syntax node gyb support called
"check_child_condition". Given a child's definition, this function
generate a C++ closure to check whether a given syntax node can satisfy
the condition of the child node. This function recursively generates code
for node choices too, therefore we don't need to hard code the
condition checking for node choices.
Some structures of syntax nodes can have children choices, e.g. a
dictionary expression can either contain a single ':' token or a list of
key-value pairs.
This patch gives the existing code generation infrastructure a way to
specify such node choices. Node choices are specified under a child
declaration with two constraints: a choice cannot be declared as
optional, and a choice cannot have further recursive choices.
Since we don't have too many node structures with choices, part of the
SyntaxFactory code for these nodes is manually typed.
This patch also teaches AccessorBlock to use node choices.
* Generate libSyntax API
This patch removes the hand-rolled libSyntax API and replaces it with an
API that's entirely automatically generated. This means the API is
guaranteed to be internally stylistically and functionally consistent.
