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2019-03-08beam_ssa_opt: Fix crash in ssa_opt_floatJohn Högberg
For reasons better explained in the source code, ssa_opt_float skips optimizing inside guards but it failed to do so consistently; while the pass never processed guard blocks, it was still possible to erroneously defer error checking to a guard block, crashing the compiler once it realized its state was invalid.
2019-02-28beam_ssa_opt: Use is_tagged_tuple moreBjörn Gustavsson
Consider this code: foo(X) -> case X of {ok,A} -> A; error -> X end. The `is_tagged_tuple` instruction would not be used because not all instructions in the tuple matching sequence had the same failure label: function t:foo(_0) { 0: @ssa_bool:7 = bif:is_tuple _0 br @ssa_bool:7, label 8, label 4 8: @ssa_arity = bif:tuple_size _0 @ssa_bool:9 = bif:'=:=' @ssa_arity, literal 2 br @ssa_bool:9, label 6, label 3 6: _4 = get_tuple_element _0, literal 0 @ssa_bool = bif:'=:=' _4, literal ok br @ssa_bool, label 5, label 3 5: _3 = get_tuple_element _0, literal 1 ret _3 4: @ssa_bool:11 = bif:'=:=' _0, literal error br @ssa_bool:11, label 10, label 3 10: ret _0 3: _2 = put_tuple literal case_clause, _0 %% t.erl:5 @ssa_ret:12 = call remote (literal erlang):(literal error)/1, _2 ret @ssa_ret:12 } Enhance the ssa_opt_record optimization to use `is_tagged_tuple` even if all failure labels are not the same: function t:foo(_0) { 0: @ssa_bool:7 = bif:is_tuple _0 br @ssa_bool:7, label 8, label 4 8: @ssa_bool:9 = is_tagged_tuple _0, literal 2, literal ok br @ssa_bool:9, label 6, label 3 6: _3 = get_tuple_element _0, literal 1 ret _3 4: @ssa_bool:11 = bif:'=:=' _0, literal error br @ssa_bool:11, label 10, label 3 10: ret _0 3: _2 = put_tuple literal case_clause, _0 %% t.erl:5 @ssa_ret:12 = call remote (literal erlang):(literal error)/1, _2 ret @ssa_ret:12 } The tuple test will be repeated, but since four instructions are replaced by two instructions, the code will still be faster and smaller.
2019-02-28beam_ssa_opt: Order consecutive get_tuple_element instructionsBjörn Gustavsson
2019-02-21beam_ssa_opt: Do local CSE of get_tuple_element instructionsBjörn Gustavsson
For some reason, a `get_tuple_element` instruction was not deemed suitble for local common sub expression elimination. It turns out that enabling CSE for `get_tuple_element` is benefical. It will also be even more benefical in a future commit where some of the optimizations in `sys_core_fold` are removed.
2019-02-20Improve optimization of switchesBjörn Gustavsson
Part of the switch optimization done by `ssa_opt_sw` can be better done in `beam_ssa_type`.
2019-02-19Do the destructive setelement optimization in SSABjörn Gustavsson
The expansion of record field updates, when more than one field is updated, but not a majority of the fields, will create a sequence of calls to `erlang:setelement(Index, Value, Tuple)` where Tuple in the first call is the original record tuple, and in the subsequent calls Tuple is the result of the previous call. Furthermore, all Index values are constant positive integers, and the first call to `setelement` will have the greatest index. Thus all the following calls do not actually need to test at run-time whether Tuple has type tuple, nor that the index is within the tuple bounds. Since OTP R7, the `sys_core_dsetel` pass, run as the very last Core Erlang pass, has optimized this sequence of `setelement` calls to use a special destructive version of `setelement` (called `set_tuple_element`) for all but the very first `setelement` in the sequence. It turns out that the presence of the `set_tuple_element` in SSA code is awkward and can prevent or complicate type analysis and aggressive optimizations. Therefore, this commit removes the `sys_core_dsetel` pass and reimplements it for SSA code. The optimization will be done in the `beam_ssa_pre_codegen` pass (that is, just before code generation and after running all other SSA code optimization passes). In most cases, the resulting BEAM code is identical to previous code. For a few modules, the BEAM code is actually slightly better, with smaller stack frames.
2019-02-15Make sure that beam_ssa_opt optimizes all functionsBjörn Gustavsson
The function `get_call_order_po/2` did not always include all functions in a module. The method it used was to first find all leave functions (functions not calling any other function), and then find all others functions that called any of the leave functions either directly or indirectly. Functions that did not call a leave function (directly or indirectly) would not be included in the list of functions to optimize. Reimplement `get_call_order_po/2` to use the standard algorithm for constructing a list of nodes in reverse postorder and then reverse that list.
2019-02-07Merge pull request #2135 from bjorng/bjorn/compiler/optimize-dominatorsBjörn Gustavsson
Optimize ssa_opt_sink for huge functions
2019-02-06Optimize ssa_opt_sink for huge functionsBjörn Gustavsson
The ssa_opt_sink optimization of beam_ssa_opt could get very slow for certain huge functions. 9a190cae9bd7 partly addressed this issue by terminating the optimization early if there happened to be no get_tuple_element instructions at all in the function. This commit addresses the issue more directly by making the dominator calculation in beam_ssa:dominators/1 more efficient. The same algorithm as before is used, but it is implemented in a more efficient way based on the ideas in "A Simple, Fast Dominance Algorithm" (http://www.hipersoft.rice.edu/grads/publications/dom14.pdf). As well as being more efficient, the new implementation also gives an explicit representation of the dominator tree, which makes it possible to simplify and optimize the ssa_opt_sink optimization.
2019-02-04beam_ssa_opt: Fix function name printing in sub-pass crash dumpJohn Högberg
2019-02-01Make helper functions tail-recursiveBjörn Gustavsson
Two helper functions in beam_ssa_opt and beam_ssa_dead are body-recursive for no good reason. While at it, add some clarifying comments to the functions.
2019-02-01Prefer map syntax and guard BIFs over the maps modulesBjörn Gustavsson
Avoiding calls usually reduces the size of the stack frame and reduces register shuffling.
2019-02-01Use gb_sets:delete/2 instead of gb_sets:delete_any/2Björn Gustavsson
Save a little time by using gb_sets:delete/2 instead of gb_sets:delete_any/2 when the key is known to be in the set.
2019-02-01Optimize ssa_opt_sink when nothing can be sunkBjörn Gustavsson
Compilation will be much faster if there are many blocks, but no get_tuple_element instructions. Reported-by: Michał Muskała
2019-01-29Merge pull request #2112 from bjorng/bjorn/compiler/compilation-speedBjörn Gustavsson
Speed up the compiler when compiling the idna package
2019-01-28Speed up ssa_opt_merge_blocksBjörn Gustavsson
It is never possible to merge a block ending in a switch with the next block, so it is not necessary to call `beam_ssa:successors/1` in that case. Avoiding the call slightly improves compilation speeds for switches with many branches.
2019-01-28beam_ssa_opt: Make phase/4 tail-recursiveBjörn Gustavsson
If compilation failed, the name of the current function *and* all previously compiled functions would be printed because phase/4 was not tail-recursive. https://bugs.erlang.org/browse/ERL-840
2019-01-24Introduce optimizations of tail phisBjörn Gustavsson
Try to eliminate short blocks that starts with a phi node and end in a return. For example: Result = phi { Res1, 4 }, { literal true, 5 } Ret = put_tuple literal ok, Result ret Ret The code in this block can be inserted at the end blocks 4 and 5. Thus, the following code can be inserted into block 4: Ret:1 = put_tuple literal ok, Res1 ret Ret:1 And the following code into block 5: Ret:2 = put_tuple literal ok, literal true ret Ret:2 Which can be further simplified to: ret literal {ok, true} This transformation may lead to more code improvements, for example: * Stack trimming * Fewer test_heap instructions * Smaller stack frames
2019-01-24compiler: Introduce module-level type optimizationJohn Högberg
This commit lets the type optimization pass work across functions, tracking return and argument types to eliminate redundant tests.
2019-01-24beam_ssa_opt: Add a scaffold for module-level optimizationsJohn Högberg
This serves as a base for the upcoming module-level type optimization, but may come in handy for other passes like beam_ssa_funs and beam_ssa_bsm that have their own ad-hoc implementations.
2019-01-21beam_ssa_opt: Don't ruin arguments of bs_match/skipJohn Högberg
If the match instruction was already marked as a skip, we'd ruin its argument list.
2019-01-18beam_ssa_opt: Run ssa_opt_tuple_size earlyBjörn Gustavsson
Running ssa_opt_tuple_size early will give more opportunities for optimizations.
2019-01-18beam_ssa_opt: Run the type optimization pass twiceBjörn Gustavsson
The code will be significantly improved by running the type optimization pass twice. The ssa_opt_misc pass can be eliminated because everything it does is also done by the type optimization pass.
2019-01-17beam_ssa_type: Eliminate redundant 'succeeded' instructionsBjörn Gustavsson
The beam_ssa_type pass would leave redundant 'succeeded' instructions, and depend on the live optimization pass to remove them. Update beam_ssa_type to remove redundant 'succeeded' instructions. This will not improve the generated code, but will improve compilation times since it eliminates instructions and variables.
2019-01-16Move optimizations of bs_put* instruction to beam_ssa_optBjörn Gustavsson
Do the optimizations of bs_put* instructions in beam_ssa_opt and remove the beam_bs pass. This can lead to a slight improvement of compilation times.
2019-01-16Move coalescing of bs_skip to beam_ssa_optBjörn Gustavsson
The optimization can be applied in a few more places if done before ssa_opt_bsm_shortcut (for example, in unicode:cbv/2).
2018-11-28Share the code for semantically equivalent blocksBjörn Gustavsson
Share code for semantically equivalent blocks referred to to by `br` and `switch` instructions. A similar optimization is done in `beam_jump`, but doing it here as well is beneficial as it may enable other optimizations. Also, if there are many semantically equivalent clauses, this optimization can substanstially decrease compilation times.
2018-09-28beam_ssa_opt: Eliminate redundant match alignment testsJohn Högberg
The beam_ssa_bsm pass welds chained matches together, but the match expressions themselves are unchanged and if there's a tail alignment check it will be done each time. This subpass figures out the checks we've already done and deletes the redundant ones.
2018-09-20Consistently use #b_var{} instead of var_name()John Högberg
We chose to refer to variables through their var_name() because we anticipated the need to annotate them, but it turned out we didn't really need that, and many things become a lot cleaner if the entire #b_var{} is used to represent variables.
2018-09-17Add beam_ssa_dead.erlBjörn Gustavsson
Add beam_ssa_dead to perform the main optimizations done by beam_dead: * Shortcut branches that jump to another block with a branch. If it can be seen that the second branch will always branch to a specific block, replace the target of the first branch. * Combined nested sequences of '=:=' tests and switch instructions operating on the same variable to a single switch. Diffing the compiler output, it seems that beam_ssa_dead finds many more opportunities for optimizations than beam_dead, although it does not find all opportunities that beam_dead does. In total, beam_ssa_dead is such improvement over beam_dead that there is no reason to keep beam_dead as well as beam_ssa_dead. Note that beam_ssa_dead does not attempt to optimize away redundant bs_context_binary instructions, because that instruction will be superseded by new instructions in the near future.
2018-09-17beam_ssa_opt: Robustify float optimizationsBjörn Gustavsson
The floating point optimization relies on heavily on the block order in the lineararized representation. A new optimization could easily break the optimization, for example so that no `fcheckerror` instructions were emitted. Rewrite the optimization to avoid dependencies on the linear block order.
2018-09-12beam_ssa_opt: Don't do CSE for tuple_size/1Björn Gustavsson
Not doing CSE for tuple_size/1 seems to generate slightly better code in most cases.
2018-09-12beam_ssa_opt: Slightly optimize compile-time performance of CSEBjörn Gustavsson
2018-09-12beam_ssa_opt: Slightly optimize performance of live optimizationBjörn Gustavsson
Phi nodes with only literals are fairly common, so it's worthwhile to optimize this case.
2018-09-12beam_ssa_opt: Add an optimization of tuple_size/1Björn Gustavsson
This optimization working on the SSA format will replace the similar optimization in beam_dead. See the comment for an explanation of what the new optimization does.
2018-09-12beam_ssa_opt: Add simplification of switch listsBjörn Gustavsson
When the argument for a #b_switch{} comes from a phi node with only literal values, the switch list could be pruned to only contain the possible values. It could also be possible to eliminate the failure label. Also simplify a switch with a single value list or switch that can be replaced with an is_boolean test.
2018-09-12beam_ssa_opt: Add a pass for coalescing phi nodesBjörn Gustavsson
Nested cases can led to code such as this: 10: _1 = phi {literal value1, label 8}, {Var, label 9} br 11 11: _2 = phi {_1, label 10}, {literal false, label 3} The phi nodes can be coalesced like this: 11: _2 = phi {literal value1, label 8}, {Var, label 9}, {literal false, label 3} Coalescing can help other optimizations, and can in some cases reduce register shuffling (if the phi variables for two phi nodes happens to be allocated to different registers).
2018-09-12beam_ssa_opt: Fix liveness optimizationBjörn Gustavsson
Add more instructions to the list of functions that can be safely removed if their values are not used. This is necessary for correctness when doing more aggressive optimizations. Without this change, the 'succeeded' instruction could be optimized away leaving just the instruction followed by an unconditional branch, which the beam_ssa_codegen does not know how to handle. Here is an example: _3 = bs_start_match _1 br label 13 By adding bs_start_match to the list, the bs_start_match instruction will be removed too. (If the result of bs_start_match is actually used, the succeeded instruction would not be removed.) While we are it, rename the misnamed function is_pure/1 to no_side_effect/1 and move it to beam_ssa. is_pure/1 is a bad name because bif:get has no side effect, but is not pure.
2018-09-12Optimize 'and' and 'or' instructionsBjörn Gustavsson
2018-08-24Introduce a new SSA-based intermediate formatBjörn Gustavsson
v3_codegen is replaced by three new passes: * beam_kernel_to_ssa which translates the Kernel Erlang format to a new SSA-based intermediate format. * beam_ssa_pre_codegen which prepares the SSA-based format for code generation, including register allocation. Registers are allocated using the linear scan algorithm. * beam_ssa_codegen which generates BEAM assembly code from the SSA-based format. It easier and more effective to optimize the SSA-based format before X and Y registers have been assigned. The current optimization passes constantly have to make sure no "holes" in the X register assignments are created (that is, that no X register becomes undefined that an allocation instruction depends on). This commit also introduces the following optimizations: * Replacing of tuple matching of records with the is_tagged_tuple instruction. (Replacing beam_record.) * Sinking of get_tuple_element instructions to just before the first use of the extracted values. As well as potentially avoiding extracting tuple elements when they are not actually used on all executions paths, this optimization could also reduce the number values that will need to be stored in Y registers. (Similar to beam_reorder, but more effective.) * Live optimizations, removing the definition of a variable that is not subsequently used (provided that the operation has no side effects), as well strength reduction of binary matching by replacing the extraction of value from a binary with a skip instruction. (Used to be done by beam_block, beam_utils, and v3_codegen.) * Removal of redundant bs_restore2 instructions. (Formerly done by beam_bs.) * Type-based optimizations across branches. More effective than the old beam_type pass that only did type-based optimizations in basic blocks. * Optimization of floating point instructions. (Formerly done by beam_type.) * Optimization of receive statements to introduce recv_mark and recv_set instructions. More effective with far fewer restrictions on what instructions are allowed between creating the reference and entering the receive statement. * Common subexpression elimination. (Formerly done by beam_block.)