The purpose of the translation item collector is to find all monomorphic instances of functions, methods and statics that need to be translated into LLVM IR in order to compile the current crate.
So far these instances have been discovered lazily during the trans path. For incremental compilation we want to know the set of these instances in advance, and that is what the trans::collect module provides.
In the future, incremental and regular translation will be driven by the collector implemented here.
This PR changes the `emit_opaque` and `read_opaque` methods in the RBML library to use a space-efficient binary encoder that does not emit any tags and uses the LEB128 variable-length integer format for all numbers it emits.
The space savings are nice, albeit a bit underwhelming, especially for dynamic libraries where metadata is already compressed.
| RLIBs | NEW | OLD |
|--------------|--------|-----------|
|libstd | 8.8 MB | 10.5 MB |
|libcore |15.6 MB | 19.7 MB |
|libcollections| 3.7 MB | 4.8 MB |
|librustc |34.0 MB | 37.8 MB |
|libsyntax |28.3 MB | 32.1 MB |
| SOs | NEW | OLD |
|---------------|-----------|--------|
| libstd | 4.8 MB | 5.1 MB |
| librustc | 8.6 MB | 9.2 MB |
| libsyntax | 7.8 MB | 8.4 MB |
At least this should make up for the size increase caused recently by also storing MIR in crate metadata.
Can this be a breaking change for anyone?
cc @rust-lang/compiler
With this commit, metadata encoding and decoding can make use of
thread-local encoding and decoding contexts. These allow implementers
of serialize::Encodable and Decodable to access information and
datastructures that would otherwise not be available to them. For
example, we can automatically translate def-id and span information
during decoding because the decoding context knows which crate the
data is decoded from. Or it allows to make ty::Ty decodable because
the context has access to the ty::ctxt that is needed for creating
ty::Ty instances.
