commit 0929b9c850fad1aaa21dff0c041c8498ada59360
author Reid Kleckner <rnk@google.com> Tue Nov 27 19:00:23 2018 +0000
committer Reid Kleckner <rnk@google.com> Tue Nov 27 19:00:23 2018 +0000
tree 252aacf2034e1db72aee5ed629899eee10e68dbe
parent 6783d54f5d0d1535e44479c13692d4faf75428c7

[PDB] Add symbol records in bulk

Summary:
This speeds up linking clang.exe/pdb with /DEBUG:GHASH by 31%, from
12.9s to 9.8s.

Symbol records are typically small (16.7 bytes on average), but we
processed them one at a time. CVSymbol is a relatively "large" type. It
wraps an ArrayRef<uint8_t> with a kind an optional 32-bit hash, which we
don't need. Before this change, each DbiModuleDescriptorBuilder would
maintain an array of CVSymbols, and would write them individually with a
BinaryItemStream.

With this change, we now add symbols that happen to appear contiguously
in bulk. For each .debug$S section (roughly one per function), we
allocate two copies, one for relocation, and one for realignment
purposes. For runs of symbols that go in the module stream, which is
most symbols, we now add them as a single ArrayRef<uint8_t>, so the
vector DbiModuleDescriptorBuilder is roughly linear in the number of
.debug$S sections (O(# funcs)) instead of the number of symbol records
(very large).

Some stats on symbol sizes for the curious:
  PDB size: 507M
  sym bytes: 316,508,016
  sym count:  18,954,971
  sym byte avg: 16.7

As future work, we may be able to skip copying symbol records in the
linker for realignment purposes if we make LLVM write them aligned into
the object file. We need to double check that such symbol records are
still compatible with link.exe, but if so, it's definitely worth doing,
since my profile shows we spend 500ms in memcpy in the symbol merging
code. We could potentially cut that in half by saving a copy.
Alternatively, we could apply the relocations *after* we iterate the
symbols. This would require some careful re-engineering of the
relocation processing code, though.

Reviewers: zturner, aganea, ruiu

Subscribers: hiraditya, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54554

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/lld/trunk@347687 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8