Cache string and bytestring literal allocs.

src/eval_context.rs

@@ -168,11 +168,8 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> EvalContext<'a, 'tcx> {
         &self.stack
     }
 
-    pub(super) fn str_to_value(&mut self, s: &str) -> EvalResult<'tcx, Value> {
-        // FIXME: cache these allocs
-        let ptr = self.memory.allocate(s.len() as u64, 1)?;
-        self.memory.write_bytes(ptr, s.as_bytes())?;
-        self.memory.mark_static_initalized(ptr.alloc_id, false)?;
+    pub(crate) fn str_to_value(&mut self, s: &str) -> EvalResult<'tcx, Value> {
+        let ptr = self.memory.allocate_cached(s.as_bytes())?;
         Ok(Value::ByValPair(PrimVal::Ptr(ptr), PrimVal::from_u128(s.len() as u128)))
     }
 
@@ -194,10 +191,7 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> EvalContext<'a, 'tcx> {
             Str(ref s) => return self.str_to_value(s),
 
             ByteStr(ref bs) => {
-                // FIXME: cache these allocs
-                let ptr = self.memory.allocate(bs.len() as u64, 1)?;
-                self.memory.write_bytes(ptr, bs)?;
-                self.memory.mark_static_initalized(ptr.alloc_id, false)?;
+                let ptr = self.memory.allocate_cached(bs)?;
                 PrimVal::Ptr(ptr)
             }
 

src/memory.rs

@@ -180,6 +180,10 @@ pub struct Memory<'a, 'tcx> {
     /// the normal struct access will succeed even though it shouldn't.
     /// But even with mir optimizations, that situation is hard/impossible to produce.
     packed: BTreeSet<Entry>,
+
+    /// A cache for basic byte allocations keyed by their contents. This is used to deduplicate
+    /// allocations for string and bytestring literals.
+    literal_alloc_cache: HashMap<Vec<u8>, AllocId>,
 }
 
 const ZST_ALLOC_ID: AllocId = AllocId(0);
@@ -197,6 +201,7 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> Memory<'a, 'tcx> {
             memory_usage: 0,
             packed: BTreeSet::new(),
             static_alloc: HashSet::new(),
+            literal_alloc_cache: HashMap::new(),
         }
     }
 
@@ -263,6 +268,18 @@ impl<'a, 'tcx> Memory<'a, 'tcx> {
         Pointer::new(id, 0)
     }
 
+    pub fn allocate_cached(&mut self, bytes: &[u8]) -> EvalResult<'tcx, Pointer> {
+        if let Some(&alloc_id) = self.literal_alloc_cache.get(bytes) {
+            return Ok(Pointer::new(alloc_id, 0));
+        }
+
+        let ptr = self.allocate(bytes.len() as u64, 1)?;
+        self.write_bytes(ptr, bytes)?;
+        self.mark_static_initalized(ptr.alloc_id, false)?;
+        self.literal_alloc_cache.insert(bytes.to_vec(), ptr.alloc_id);
+        Ok(ptr)
+    }
+
     pub fn allocate(&mut self, size: u64, align: u64) -> EvalResult<'tcx, Pointer> {
         if size == 0 {
             return Ok(Pointer::zst_ptr());