Unify stable and unstable sort implementations in same core module
This moves the stable sort implementation to the core::slice::sort module. By virtue of being in core it can't access `Vec`. The two `Vec` used by merge sort, `buf` and `runs`, are modelled as custom types that implement the very limited required `Vec` interface with the help of provided allocation and free functions. This is done to allow future re-use of functions and logic between stable and unstable sort. Such as `insert_head`.
This is in preparation of #100856 and #104116. It only moves code, it *doesn't* change any of the sort related logic. This unlocks the ability to share `insert_head`, `insert_tail`, `swap_if_less` `merge` and more.
Tagging ````@Mark-Simulacrum```` I hope this allows progress on #100856, by moving `merge_sort` here I hope future changes will be easier to review.
Add heapsort fallback in `select_nth_unstable`
Addresses #102451 and #106933.
`slice::select_nth_unstable` uses a quick select implementation based on the same pattern defeating quicksort algorithm that `slice::sort_unstable` uses. `slice::sort_unstable` uses a recursion limit and falls back to heapsort if there were too many bad pivot choices, to ensure O(n log n) worst case running time (known as introsort). However, `slice::select_nth_unstable` does not have such a fallback strategy, which leads to it having a worst case running time of O(n²) instead. #102451 links to a playground which generates pathological inputs that show this quadratic behavior. On my machine, a randomly generated slice of length `1 << 19` takes ~200µs to calculate its median, whereas a pathological input of the same length takes over 2.5s. This PR adds an iteration limit to `select_nth_unstable`, falling back to heapsort, which ensures an O(n log n) worst case running time (introselect). With this change, there was no noticable slowdown for the random input, but the same pathological input now takes only ~1.2ms. In the future it might be worth implementing something like Median of Medians or Fast Deterministic Selection instead, which guarantee O(n) running time for all possible inputs. I've left this as a `FIXME` for now and only implemented the heapsort fallback to minimize the needed code changes.
I still think we should clarify in the `select_nth_unstable` docs that the worst case running time isn't currently O(n) (the original reason that #102451 was opened), but I think it's a lot better to be able to guarantee O(n log n) instead of O(n²) for the worst case.
Adjust inlining attributes around panic_immediate_abort
The goal of `panic_immediate_abort` is to permit the panic runtime and formatting code paths to be optimized away. But while poking through some disassembly of a small program compiled with that option, I found that was not the case. Enabling LTO did address that specific issue, but enabling LTO is a steep price to pay for this feature doing its job.
This PR fixes that, by tweaking two things:
* All the slice indexing functions that we `const_eval_select` on get `#[inline]`. `objdump -dC` told me that originally some `_ct` functions could end up in an executable. I won't pretend to understand what's going on there.
* Normalize attributes across all `panic!` wrappers: use `inline(never) + cold` normally, and `inline` when `panic_immediate_abort` is enabled.
But also, with LTO and `panic_immediate_abort` enabled, this patch knocks ~709 kB out of the `.text` segment of `librustc_driver.so`. That is slightly surprising to me, my best theory is that this shifts some inlining earlier in compilation, enabling some subsequent optimizations. The size improvement of `librustc_driver.so` with `panic_immediate_abort` due to this patch is greater with LTO than without LTO, which I suppose backs up this theory.
I do not know how to test this. I would quite like to, because I think what this is solving was an accidental regression. This only works with `-Zbuild-std` which is a cargo flag, and thus can't be used in a rustc codegen test.
r? `@thomcc`
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I do not seriously think anyone is going to use a compiler built with `panic_immediate_abort`, but I wanted a big complicated Rust program to try this out on, and the compiler is such.
Add slice methods for indexing via an array of indices.
Disclaimer: It's been a while since I contributed to the main Rust repo, apologies in advance if this is large enough already that it should've been an RFC.
---
# Update:
- Based on feedback, removed the `&[T]` variant of this API, and removed the requirements for the indices to be sorted.
# Description
This adds the following slice methods to `core`:
```rust
impl<T> [T] {
pub unsafe fn get_many_unchecked_mut<const N: usize>(&mut self, indices: [usize; N]) -> [&mut T; N];
pub fn get_many_mut<const N: usize>(&mut self, indices: [usize; N]) -> Option<[&mut T; N]>;
}
```
This allows creating multiple mutable references to disjunct positions in a slice, which previously required writing some awkward code with `split_at_mut()` or `iter_mut()`. For the bound-checked variant, the indices are checked against each other and against the bounds of the slice, which requires `N * (N + 1) / 2` comparison operations.
This has a proof-of-concept standalone implementation here: https://crates.io/crates/index_many
Care has been taken that the implementation passes miri borrow checks, and generates straight-forward assembly (though this was only checked on x86_64).
# Example
```rust
let v = &mut [1, 2, 3, 4];
let [a, b] = v.get_many_mut([0, 2]).unwrap();
std::mem::swap(a, b);
*v += 100;
assert_eq!(v, &[3, 2, 101, 4]);
```
# Codegen Examples
<details>
<summary>Click to expand!</summary>
Disclaimer: Taken from local tests with the standalone implementation.
## Unchecked Indexing:
```rust
pub unsafe fn example_unchecked(slice: &mut [usize], indices: [usize; 3]) -> [&mut usize; 3] {
slice.get_many_unchecked_mut(indices)
}
```
```nasm
example_unchecked:
mov rcx, qword, ptr, [r9]
mov r8, qword, ptr, [r9, +, 8]
mov r9, qword, ptr, [r9, +, 16]
lea rcx, [rdx, +, 8*rcx]
lea r8, [rdx, +, 8*r8]
lea rdx, [rdx, +, 8*r9]
mov qword, ptr, [rax], rcx
mov qword, ptr, [rax, +, 8], r8
mov qword, ptr, [rax, +, 16], rdx
ret
```
## Checked Indexing (Option):
```rust
pub unsafe fn example_option(slice: &mut [usize], indices: [usize; 3]) -> Option<[&mut usize; 3]> {
slice.get_many_mut(indices)
}
```
```nasm
mov r10, qword, ptr, [r9, +, 8]
mov rcx, qword, ptr, [r9, +, 16]
cmp rcx, r10
je .LBB0_7
mov r9, qword, ptr, [r9]
cmp rcx, r9
je .LBB0_7
cmp rcx, r8
jae .LBB0_7
cmp r10, r9
je .LBB0_7
cmp r9, r8
jae .LBB0_7
cmp r10, r8
jae .LBB0_7
lea r8, [rdx, +, 8*r9]
lea r9, [rdx, +, 8*r10]
lea rcx, [rdx, +, 8*rcx]
mov qword, ptr, [rax], r8
mov qword, ptr, [rax, +, 8], r9
mov qword, ptr, [rax, +, 16], rcx
ret
.LBB0_7:
mov qword, ptr, [rax], 0
ret
```
## Checked Indexing (Panic):
```rust
pub fn example_panic(slice: &mut [usize], indices: [usize; 3]) -> [&mut usize; 3] {
let len = slice.len();
match slice.get_many_mut(indices) {
Some(s) => s,
None => {
let tmp = indices;
index_many::sorted_bound_check_failed(&tmp, len)
}
}
}
```
```nasm
example_panic:
sub rsp, 56
mov rax, qword, ptr, [r9]
mov r10, qword, ptr, [r9, +, 8]
mov r9, qword, ptr, [r9, +, 16]
cmp r9, r10
je .LBB0_6
cmp r9, rax
je .LBB0_6
cmp r9, r8
jae .LBB0_6
cmp r10, rax
je .LBB0_6
cmp rax, r8
jae .LBB0_6
cmp r10, r8
jae .LBB0_6
lea rax, [rdx, +, 8*rax]
lea r8, [rdx, +, 8*r10]
lea rdx, [rdx, +, 8*r9]
mov qword, ptr, [rcx], rax
mov qword, ptr, [rcx, +, 8], r8
mov qword, ptr, [rcx, +, 16], rdx
mov rax, rcx
add rsp, 56
ret
.LBB0_6:
mov qword, ptr, [rsp, +, 32], rax
mov qword, ptr, [rsp, +, 40], r10
mov qword, ptr, [rsp, +, 48], r9
lea rcx, [rsp, +, 32]
mov edx, 3
call index_many::bound_check_failed
ud2
```
</details>
# Extensions
There are multiple optional extensions to this.
## Indexing With Ranges
This could easily be expanded to allow indexing with `[I; N]` where `I: SliceIndex<Self>`. I wanted to keep the initial implementation simple, so I didn't include it yet.
## Panicking Variant
We could also add this method:
```rust
impl<T> [T] {
fn index_many_mut<const N: usize>(&mut self, indices: [usize; N]) -> [&mut T; N];
}
```
This would work similar to the regular index operator and panic with out-of-bound indices. The advantage would be that we could more easily ensure good codegen with a useful panic message, which is non-trivial with the `Option` variant.
This is implemented in the standalone implementation, and used as basis for the codegen examples here and there.
This moves the stable sort implementation to the core::slice::sort module. By
virtue of being in core it can't access `Vec`. The two `Vec` used by merge sort,
`buf` and `runs`, are modelled as custom types that implement the very limited
required `Vec` interface with the help of provided allocation and free
functions. This is done to allow future re-use of functions and logic between
stable and unstable sort. Such as `insert_head`.
Use a faster allocation size check in slice::from_raw_parts
I've been perusing through the codegen changes that result from turning on the standard library debug assertions. The previous check in here uses saturating arithmetic, which in my experience sometimes makes LLVM just fail to optimize things around the saturating operation.
Here is a demo of the codegen difference: https://godbolt.org/z/WMEqrjajW
Before:
```asm
example::len_check_old:
mov rax, rdi
mov ecx, 3
mul rcx
setno cl
test rax, rax
setns al
and al, cl
ret
example::len_check_old:
mov rax, rdi
mov ecx, 8
mul rcx
setno cl
test rax, rax
setns al
and al, cl
ret
```
After:
```asm
example::len_check_new:
movabs rax, 3074457345618258603
cmp rdi, rax
setb al
ret
example::len_check_new:
shr rdi, 60
sete al
ret
```
Running rustc-perf locally, this looks like up to a 4.5% improvement when `debug-assertions-std = true`.
Thanks ```@LegionMammal978``` (I think that's you?) for turning my idea into a much cleaner implementation.
r? ```@thomcc```
Use ptr::metadata in <[T]>::len implementation
This avoids duplication of ptr::metadata code.
I believe this is acceptable as the previous approach essentially duplicated `ptr::metadata` because back then `rustc_allow_const_fn_unstable` annotation did not exist.
I would like somebody to ping `@rust-lang/wg-const-eval` as the documentation says:
> Always ping `@rust-lang/wg-const-eval` if you are adding more rustc_allow_const_fn_unstable attributes to any const fn.
More slice::partition_point examples
After seeing the discussion of `binary_search` vs `partition_point` in #101999, I thought some more example code could be helpful.
slice: #[inline] a couple iterator methods.
The one I care about and actually saw in the wild not getting inlined is
clone(). We ended up doing a whole function call for something that just
copies two pointers.
I ended up marking as_slice / as_ref as well because make_slice is
inline(always) itself, and is also the kind of think that can kill
performance in hot loops if you expect it to get inlined. But happy to
undo those.
`EscapeAscii` is not an `ExactSizeIterator`
Fixes#99878
Do we want/need `EscapeAscii` to be an `ExactSizeIterator`? I guess we could precompute the length of the output if so?
Improve documentation of `slice::{from_ptr_range, from_ptr_range_mut}`
Document panic conditions (`T` is a ZST) and sync docs of shared/unique version.
cc `@wx-csy`
Constify slice.split_at_mut(_unchecked)
Tracking Issue: [Tracking Issue for const_slice_split_at_mut](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/101804)
Feature gate: `#![feature(const_slice_split_at_mut)]`
Still requires const_mut_refs to be actually used, but this feature removes the need to manually re implement these functions in a user crate.
Clarify `[T]::select_nth_unstable*` return values
In cases where the nth element is not unique within the slice, it is not
correct to say that the values in the returned triplet include ones for
"all elements" less/greater than that at the given index: indeed one (or
more) such values would then also contain elements equal to that at
the given index.
The text proposed here clarifies exactly what is returned, but in so
doing it is also documenting an implementation detail that previously
wasn't detailed: namely that the returned slices are slices into the
reordered slice. I don't think this can be contentious, because the
lifetimes of those returned slices are bound to that of the original
(now reordered) slice—so there really isn't any other reasonable
implementation that could have this behaviour; but nevertheless it's
probably best if `@rust-lang/libs-api` give it a nod?
Fixes#97982
r? `@m-ou-se`
`@rustbot` label +A-docs +C-bug +T-libs-api -T-libs
Make ZST checks in core/alloc more readable
There's a bunch of these checks because of special handing for ZSTs in various unsafe implementations of stuff.
This lets them be `T::IS_ZST` instead of `mem::size_of::<T>() == 0` every time, making them both more readable and more terse.
*Not* proposed for stabilization. Would be `pub(crate)` except `alloc` wants to use it too.
(And while it doesn't matter now, if we ever get something like #85836 making it a const can help codegen be simpler.)
Refactor some `std` code that works with pointer offstes
This PR replaces `pointer::offset` in standard library with `pointer::add` and `pointer::sub`, [re]moving some casts and using `.addr()` while we are at it.
This is a more complicated refactor than all other sibling PRs, so take a closer look when reviewing, please 😃 (though I've checked this multiple times and it looks fine).
r? ````@scottmcm````
_split off from #100746, continuation of #100822_
There's a bunch of these checks because of special handing for ZSTs in various unsafe implementations of stuff.
This lets them be `T::IS_ZST` instead of `mem::size_of::<T>() == 0` every time, making them both more readable and more terse.
*Not* proposed for stabilization at this time. Would be `pub(crate)` except `alloc` wants to use it too.
(And while it doesn't matter now, if we ever get something like 85836 making it a const can help codegen be simpler.)
