rust/compiler/rustc_codegen_ssa/src/mir
Nicholas Nethercote 003a3f8cd3 Use br instead of switch in more cases.
`codegen_switchint_terminator` already uses `br` instead of `switch`
when there is one normal target plus the `otherwise` target. But there's
another common case with two normal targets and an `otherwise` target
that points to an empty unreachable BB. This comes up a lot when
switching on the tags of enums that use niches.

The pattern looks like this:
```
bb1:                                              ; preds = %bb6
  %3 = load i8, ptr %_2, align 1, !range !9, !noundef !4
  %4 = sub i8 %3, 2
  %5 = icmp eq i8 %4, 0
  %_6 = select i1 %5, i64 0, i64 1
  switch i64 %_6, label %bb3 [
    i64 0, label %bb4
    i64 1, label %bb2
  ]

bb3:                                              ; preds = %bb1
  unreachable
```
This commit adds code to convert the `switch` to a `br`:
```
bb1:                                              ; preds = %bb6
  %3 = load i8, ptr %_2, align 1, !range !9, !noundef !4
  %4 = sub i8 %3, 2
  %5 = icmp eq i8 %4, 0
  %_6 = select i1 %5, i64 0, i64 1
  %6 = icmp eq i64 %_6, 0
  br i1 %6, label %bb4, label %bb2

bb3:                                              ; No predecessors!
  unreachable
```
This has a surprisingly large effect on compile times, with reductions
of 5% on debug builds of some crates. The reduction is all due to LLVM
taking less time. Maybe LLVM is just much better at handling `br` than
`switch`.

The resulting code is still suboptimal.
- The `icmp`, `select`, `icmp` sequence is silly, converting an `i1` to an `i64`
  and back to an `i1`. But with the current code structure it's hard to avoid,
  and LLVM will easily clean it up, in opt builds at least.
- `bb3` is usually now truly dead code (though not always, so it can't
  be removed universally).
2022-10-31 10:16:39 +11:00
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analyze.rs Replace Body::basic_blocks() with field access 2022-08-26 14:27:08 +02:00
block.rs Use br instead of switch in more cases. 2022-10-31 10:16:39 +11:00
constant.rs use ty::Unevaluated<'tcx, ()> in type system 2022-09-13 17:40:59 +02:00
coverageinfo.rs Add SourceScope::inlined_instance 2022-07-08 09:19:07 +02:00
debuginfo.rs ssa: implement #[collapse_debuginfo] 2022-09-07 13:54:51 +01:00
intrinsic.rs Auto merge of #101483 - oli-obk:guaranteed_opt, r=fee1-dead 2022-09-10 09:50:21 +00:00
mod.rs rustc_codegen_ssa: use more consistent naming. 2022-10-25 12:07:23 +11:00
operand.rs Remove type argument of array_alloca and rename to byte_array_alloca 2022-10-02 13:42:14 +00:00
place.rs Revert "Revert "Rollup merge of #98582 - oli-obk:unconstrained_opaque_type, r=estebank"" 2022-09-16 11:36:39 +00:00
rvalue.rs Allow dyn* upcasting 2022-10-14 04:43:56 +00:00
statement.rs Generalize the Assume intrinsic statement to a general Intrinsic statement 2022-09-06 14:18:32 +00:00