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In various places in LLD's hot loops, we have expressions of the form "E == R_FOO || E == R_BAR || ..." (E is a RelExpr). Some of these expressions are quite long, and even though they usually go just a very small number of ways and so should be well predicted, they can still occupy branch predictor resources harming other parts of the code, or they won't be predicted well if they overflow branch predictor resources or if the branches are too dense and the branch predictor can't track them all (the compiler can in theory avoid this, at a cost in text size). And some of these expressions are so large and executed so frequently that even when well-predicted they probably still have a nontrivial cost. This speedup should be pretty portable. The cost of these simple bit tests is independent of: - the target we are linking for - the distribution of RelExpr's for a given link (which can depend on how the input files were compiled) - what compiler was used to compile LLD (it is just a simple bit test; hopefully the compiler gets it right!) - adding new target-dependent relocations (e.g. needsPlt doesn't pay any extra cost checking R_PPC_PLT_OPD on x86-64 builds) I did some rough measurements on clang-fsds and this patch gives over about 4% speedup for a regular -O1 link, about 2.5% for -O3 --gc-sections and over 5% for -O0. Sorry, I don't have my current machine set up for doing really accurate measurements right now. This also is just a bit cleaner. Thanks for Joerg for suggesting for this approach. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27156 llvm-svn: 288314 |
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README.md
LLVM Linker (lld)
This directory and its subdirectories contain source code for the LLVM Linker, a modular cross platform linker which is built as part of the LLVM compiler infrastructure project.
lld is open source software. You may freely distribute it under the terms of the license agreement found in LICENSE.txt.