hanchenye-llvm-project/compiler-rt/SDKs
Bill Wendling 353fbd3516 Performance improvement.
Using fwrite and fread was very *very* slow. The resulting code was multiple
times slower than GCC's implementation of gcov. Replace the fwrite/fread system
with an mmap() version.

If the `.gcda' file doesn't exist, we (re)allocate a buffer that we write
into. That gets written to the `.gcda' file in one chunk. If the `.gcda' file
already exists, we simply mmap() the file, modify the mapped data, and use
msync() to write the contents out to disk. It's much easier than implementing
our own buffering scheme, and we don't have to use fwrite's and fread's
buffering.

For those who are numbers-oriented, here are some timings:

GCC Verison
-----------

`.gcda' files don't exist:  23s
`.gcda' files do exist:     14s

LLVM Version (before this change)
---------------------------------

`.gcda' files don't exist:  28s
`.gcda' files do exist:     28s

LLVM Version (with this change)
-------------------------------

`.gcda' files don't exist:  18s
`.gcda' files do exist:      4s

It's a win-win-win-win-lose-win-win scenario!

<rdar://problem/13466086>

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README.txt

README.txt

It is often convenient to be able to build compiler-rt libraries for a certain
platform without having a full SDK or development environment installed.

This makes it easy for users to build a compiler which can target a number of
different platforms, without having to actively maintain full development
environments for those platforms.

Since compiler-rt's libraries typically have minimal interaction with the
system, we achieve this by stubbing out the SDKs of certain platforms.