This patch fixes a performance bug when constructing or appending to a path
from a string or c-string. Previously we called 'push_back' to append every
single character. This caused multiple re-allocation and copies when at most
one reallocation is necessary. The new behavior is to simply call
`string::append` so it can correctly handle reallocation.
For large strings this change is a ~4x improvement. This also makes our path
faster to construct than libstdc++'s.
llvm-svn: 285530
This patch entirely rewrites the parsing logic for paths. Unlike the previous
implementation this one stores information about the current state; For example
if we are in a trailing separator or a root separator. This avoids the need for
extra lookahead (and extra work) when incrementing or decrementing an iterator.
Roughly this gives us a 15% speedup over the previous implementation.
Unfortunately this implementation is still a lot slower than libstdc++'s.
Because libstdc++ pre-parses and splits the path upon construction their
iterators are trivial to increment/decrement. This makes libc++ lazy parsing
100x slower than libstdc++. However the pre-parsing libstdc++ causes a ton
of extra and unneeded allocations when constructing the string. For example
`path("/foo/bar/")` would require at least 5 allocations with libstdc++
whereas libc++ uses only one. The non-allocating behavior is much preferable
when you consider filesystem usages like 'exists("/foo/bar/")'.
Even then libc++'s path seems to be twice as slow to simply construct compared
to libstdc++. More investigation is needed about this.
llvm-svn: 285526
This patch enables the `cxx-benchmarks` target by default. Note that the target
still has to be manually invoked since it isn't included in the default 'make'
rule.
This patch also gets the benchmarks building w/ GCC. The build previously
required the '-stdlib=libc++' flag but upstream patches to Google Benchmark
now allow the library to build w/ libc++ and GCC.
These changes should make the benchmarks easier to build and test.
llvm-svn: 279999
I've put some work into the Google Benchmark library in order to make it easier
to benchmark libc++. These changes have already been upstreamed into
Google Benchmark and this patch applies the changes to the in-tree version.
The main improvement in the addition of a 'compare_bench.py' script which
makes it very easy to compare benchmarks. For example to compare the native
STL to libc++ you would run:
`$ compare_bench.py ./util_smartptr.native.out ./util_smartptr.libcxx.out`
And the output would look like:
RUNNING: ./util_smartptr.native.out
Benchmark Time CPU Iterations
----------------------------------------------------------------
BM_SharedPtrCreateDestroy 62 ns 62 ns 10937500
BM_SharedPtrIncDecRef 31 ns 31 ns 23972603
BM_WeakPtrIncDecRef 28 ns 28 ns 23648649
RUNNING: ./util_smartptr.libcxx.out
Benchmark Time CPU Iterations
----------------------------------------------------------------
BM_SharedPtrCreateDestroy 46 ns 46 ns 14957265
BM_SharedPtrIncDecRef 31 ns 31 ns 22435897
BM_WeakPtrIncDecRef 34 ns 34 ns 21084337
Comparing ./util_smartptr.native.out to ./util_smartptr.libcxx.out
Benchmark Time CPU
-----------------------------------------------------
BM_SharedPtrCreateDestroy -0.26 -0.26
BM_SharedPtrIncDecRef +0.00 +0.00
BM_WeakPtrIncDecRef +0.21 +0.21
llvm-svn: 278147
Summary:
This patch does the following:
1. Checks in a copy of the Google Benchmark library into the libc++ repo under `utils/google-benchmark`.
2. Teaches libc++ how to build Google Benchmark against both (A) in-tree libc++ and (B) the platforms native STL.
3. Allows performance benchmarks to be built as part of the libc++ build.
Building the benchmarks (and Google Benchmark) is off by default. It must be enabled using the CMake option `-DLIBCXX_INCLUDE_BENCHMARKS=ON`. When this option is enabled the tests under `libcxx/benchmarks` can be built using the `libcxx-benchmarks` target.
On Linux platforms where libstdc++ is the default STL the CMake option `-DLIBCXX_BUILD_BENCHMARKS_NATIVE_STDLIB=ON` can be used to build each benchmark test against libstdc++ as well. This is useful for comparing performance between standard libraries.
Support for benchmarks is currently very minimal. They must be manually run by the user and there is no mechanism for detecting performance regressions.
Known Issues:
* `-DLIBCXX_INCLUDE_BENCHMARKS=ON` is only supported for Clang, and not GCC, since the `-stdlib=libc++` option is needed to build Google Benchmark.
Reviewers: danalbert, dberlin, chandlerc, mclow.lists, jroelofs
Subscribers: chandlerc, dberlin, tberghammer, danalbert, srhines, hfinkel
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22240
llvm-svn: 276049
This patch improves the performance of unordered_set's find by 45% when
the value exists within the set. __hash_tables find method
needs to check if it's reached the end of the bucket by constraining the
hash of the current node and checking it against the bucket index. However
constraining the hash is an expensive operations and it can be avoided if the
two unconstrained hashes are equal. This patch applies that optimization.
This patch also adds a top level directory called benchmarks. 'benchmarks/'
is intended to store any/all benchmarks written for the standard library.
Currently nothing is done with files under 'benchmarks/' but I would like
to move towards introducing a formal format and test runner.
llvm-svn: 274423
Eric Fiselier