This is done by having the crossbeam dependency inserted into the
proc_macro server code from the server side, to avoid adding a
dependency to proc_macro.
In addition, this introduces a -Z command-line option which will switch
rustc to run proc-macros using this cross-thread executor. With the
changes to the bridge in #98186, #98187, #98188 and #98189, the
performance of the executor should be much closer to same-thread
execution.
In local testing, the crossbeam executor was substantially more
performant than either of the two existing CrossThread strategies, so
they have been removed to keep things simple.
This method is still only used for Literal::subspan, however the
implementation only depends on the Span component, so it is simpler and
more efficient for now to pass down only the information that is needed.
In the future, if more information about the Literal is required in the
implementation (e.g. to validate that spans line up as expected with
source text), that extra information can be added back with extra
arguments.
This builds on the symbol infrastructure built for `Ident` to replicate
the `LitKind` and `Lit` structures in rustc within the `proc_macro`
client, allowing literals to be fully created and interacted with from
the client thread. Only parsing and subspan operations still require
sync RPC.
Doing this for all unicode identifiers would require a dependency on
`unicode-normalization` and `rustc_lexer`, which is currently not
possible for `proc_macro` due to it being built concurrently with `std`
and `core`. Instead, ASCII identifiers are validated locally, and an RPC
message is used to validate unicode identifiers when needed.
String values are interned on the both the server and client when
deserializing, to avoid unnecessary copies and keep Ident cheap to copy and
move. This appears to be important for performance.
The client-side interner is based roughly on the one from rustc_span, and uses
an arena inspired by rustc_arena.
RPC messages passing symbols always include the full value. This could
potentially be optimized in the future if it is revealed to be a
performance bottleneck.
Despite now having a relevant implementaion of Display for Ident, ToString is
still specialized, as it is a hot-path for this object.
The symbol infrastructure will also be used for literals in the next
part.
Unfortunately, as it is difficult to depend on crates from within proc_macro,
this is done by vendoring a copy of the hasher as a module rather than
depending on the rustc_hash crate.
This probably doesn't have a substantial impact up-front, however will be more
relevant once symbols are interned within the proc_macro client.
This greatly reduces round-trips to fetch relevant extra information about the
token in proc macro code, and avoids RPC messages to create Group tokens.
This greatly reduces round-trips to fetch relevant extra information about the
token in proc macro code, and avoids RPC messages to create Punct tokens.
proc_macro/bridge: remove `#[repr(C)]` from non-ABI-relevant types.
Not sure how this happened, maybe some of these were passed through the bridge a long time ago?
r? `@bjorn3`
This is an experimental patch to try to reduce the codegen complexity of
TokenStream's FromIterator and Extend implementations for downstream
crates, by moving the core logic into a helper type. This might help
improve build performance of crates which depend on proc_macro as
iterators are used less, and the compiler may take less time to do
things like attempt specializations or other iterator optimizations.
The change intentionally sacrifices some optimization opportunities,
such as using the specializations for collecting iterators derived from
Vec::into_iter() into Vec.
This is one of the simpler potential approaches to reducing the amount
of code generated in crates depending on proc_macro, so it seems worth
trying before other more-involved changes.
This significantly reduces the cost of common interactions with TokenStream
when running with the CrossThread execution strategy, by reducing the number of
RPC calls required.
Remove migrate borrowck mode
Closes#58781Closes#43234
# Stabilization proposal
This PR proposes the stabilization of `#![feature(nll)]` and the removal of `-Z borrowck`. Current borrow checking behavior of item bodies is currently done by first infering regions *lexically* and reporting any errors during HIR type checking. If there *are* any errors, then MIR borrowck (NLL) never occurs. If there *aren't* any errors, then MIR borrowck happens and any errors there would be reported. This PR removes the lexical region check of item bodies entirely and only uses MIR borrowck. Because MIR borrowck could never *not* be run for a compiled program, this should not break any programs. It does, however, change diagnostics significantly and allows a slightly larger set of programs to compile.
Tracking issue: #43234
RFC: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/2094-nll.md
Version: 1.63 (2022-06-30 => beta, 2022-08-11 => stable).
## Motivation
Over time, the Rust borrow checker has become "smarter" and thus allowed more programs to compile. There have been three different implementations: AST borrowck, MIR borrowck, and polonius (well, in progress). Additionally, there is the "lexical region resolver", which (roughly) solves the constraints generated through HIR typeck. It is not a full borrow checker, but does emit some errors.
The AST borrowck was the original implementation of the borrow checker and was part of the initially stabilized Rust 1.0. In mid 2017, work began to implement the current MIR borrow checker and that effort ompleted by the end of 2017, for the most part. During 2018, efforts were made to migrate away from the AST borrow checker to the MIR borrow checker - eventually culminating into "migrate" mode - where HIR typeck with lexical region resolving following by MIR borrow checking - being active by default in the 2018 edition.
In early 2019, migrate mode was turned on by default in the 2015 edition as well, but with MIR borrowck errors emitted as warnings. By late 2019, these warnings were upgraded to full errors. This was followed by the complete removal of the AST borrow checker.
In the period since, various errors emitted by the MIR borrow checker have been improved to the point that they are mostly the same or better than those emitted by the lexical region resolver.
While there do remain some degradations in errors (tracked under the [NLL-diagnostics tag](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3ANLL-diagnostics), those are sufficiently small and rare enough that increased flexibility of MIR borrow check-only is now a worthwhile tradeoff.
## What is stabilized
As said previously, this does not fundamentally change the landscape of accepted programs. However, there are a [few](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3ANLL-fixed-by-NLL) cases where programs can compile under `feature(nll)`, but not otherwise.
There are two notable patterns that are "fixed" by this stabilization. First, the `scoped_threads` feature, which is a continutation of a pre-1.0 API, can sometimes emit a [weird lifetime error](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/95527) without NLL. Second, actually seen in the standard library. In the `Extend` impl for `HashMap`, there is an implied bound of `K: 'a` that is available with NLL on but not without - this is utilized in the impl.
As mentioned before, there are a large number of diagnostic differences. Most of them are better, but some are worse. None are serious or happen often enough to need to block this PR. The biggest change is the loss of error code for a number of lifetime errors in favor of more general "lifetime may not live long enough" error. While this may *seem* bad, the former error codes were just attempts to somewhat-arbitrarily bin together lifetime errors of the same type; however, on paper, they end up being roughly the same with roughly the same kinds of solutions.
## What isn't stabilized
This PR does not completely remove the lexical region resolver. In the future, it may be possible to remove that (while still keeping HIR typeck) or to remove it together with HIR typeck.
## Tests
Many test outputs get updated by this PR. However, there are number of tests specifically geared towards NLL under `src/test/ui/nll`
## History
* On 2017-07-14, [tracking issue opened](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/43234)
* On 2017-07-20, [initial empty MIR pass added](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/43271)
* On 2017-08-29, [RFC opened](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2094)
* On 2017-11-16, [Integrate MIR type-checker with NLL](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/45825)
* On 2017-12-20, [NLL feature complete](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/46862)
* On 2018-07-07, [Don't run AST borrowck on mir mode](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/52083)
* On 2018-07-27, [Add migrate mode](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/52681)
* On 2019-04-22, [Enable migrate mode on 2015 edition](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/59114)
* On 2019-08-26, [Don't downgrade errors on 2015 edition](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/64221)
* On 2019-08-27, [Remove AST borrowck](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/64790)
The change was "Show invisible delimiters (within comments) when pretty
printing". It's useful to show these delimiters, but is a breaking
change for some proc macros.
Fixes#97608.
Reduce the amount of unstable features used in libproc_macro
This makes it easier to adapt the source for stable when copying it into rust-analyzer to load rustc compiled proc macros.
Nika Layzell