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author | José Valim <[email protected]> | 2016-07-16 22:24:50 +0200 |
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committer | José Valim <[email protected]> | 2016-08-04 13:22:14 +0200 |
commit | a5fcd4f26969a768950dc643eeed2fdb41a5dc41 (patch) | |
tree | c20bcd4a5dfeea6ccdc6a05ebd0eeaaeb0854a4d /bootstrap/lib/kernel/ebin/kernel.appup | |
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Move expansion of strings in binaries to v3_core
This speeds up the compilation of binary literals
with string values in them. For example, compiling
a file with a ~340kB binary would yield the following
times by the compiler:
Compiling "foo"
parse_module : 0.130 s 5327.6 kB
transform_module : 0.000 s 5327.6 kB
lint_module : 0.011 s 5327.8 kB
expand_module : 0.508 s 71881.2 kB
v3_core : 0.463 s 11.5 kB
Notice the increase in memory and processing time
in expand_module and v3_core. This happened because
expand_module would expand the string in binaries
into chars. For example, the binary <<"foo">>, which
is represented as
{bin, 1, [
{bin_element, 1, {string, 1, "foo"}, default, default}
]}
would be converted to
{bin, 1, [
{bin_element, 1, {char, 1, $f}, default, default},
{bin_element, 1, {char, 1, $o}, default, default},
{bin_element, 1, {char, 1, $o}, default, default}
]}
However, v3_core would then traverse all of those
characters and convert it into an actual binary, as it
is a literal value.
This patch addresses this issue by moving the expansion
of string into chars to v3_core and only if a literal
value cannot not be built. This reduces the compilation
time of the file mentioned above to the values below:
Compiling "bar"
parse_module : 0.134 s 5327.6 kB
transform_module : 0.000 s 5327.6 kB
lint_module : 0.005 s 5327.8 kB
expand_module : 0.000 s 5328.7 kB
v3_core : 0.013 s 11.2 kB
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