commit	05da2fe52162c80dfa18aedf70cf73cb11201811	[log] [tgz]
author	Reid Kleckner <rnk@google.com>	Wed Nov 13 13:15:01 2019 -0800
committer	Reid Kleckner <rnk@google.com>	Wed Nov 13 16:34:37 2019 -0800
tree	c135ce2401ff5178b42987a7768ed67aaa93b410
parent	a36f316390d4bc1bcb0e9de0f55831385ab24099 [diff]

Sink all InitializePasses.h includes

This file lists every pass in LLVM, and is included by Pass.h, which is
very popular. Every time we add, remove, or rename a pass in LLVM, it
caused lots of recompilation.

I found this fact by looking at this table, which is sorted by the
number of times a file was changed over the last 100,000 git commits
multiplied by the number of object files that depend on it in the
current checkout:
  recompiles    touches affected_files  header
  342380        95      3604    llvm/include/llvm/ADT/STLExtras.h
  314730        234     1345    llvm/include/llvm/InitializePasses.h
  307036        118     2602    llvm/include/llvm/ADT/APInt.h
  213049        59      3611    llvm/include/llvm/Support/MathExtras.h
  170422        47      3626    llvm/include/llvm/Support/Compiler.h
  162225        45      3605    llvm/include/llvm/ADT/Optional.h
  158319        63      2513    llvm/include/llvm/ADT/Triple.h
  140322        39      3598    llvm/include/llvm/ADT/StringRef.h
  137647        59      2333    llvm/include/llvm/Support/Error.h
  131619        73      1803    llvm/include/llvm/Support/FileSystem.h

Before this change, touching InitializePasses.h would cause 1345 files
to recompile. After this change, touching it only causes 550 compiles in
an incremental rebuild.

Reviewers: bkramer, asbirlea, bollu, jdoerfert

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D70211

393 files changed

tree: c135ce2401ff5178b42987a7768ed67aaa93b410

README.md

The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure

This directory and its subdirectories contain source code for LLVM, a toolkit for the construction of highly optimized compilers, optimizers, and runtime environments.

Getting Started with the LLVM System

Taken from https://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html.

Overview

Welcome to the LLVM project!

The LLVM project has multiple components. The core of the project is itself called “LLVM”. This contains all of the tools, libraries, and header files needed to process intermediate representations and converts it into object files. Tools include an assembler, disassembler, bitcode analyzer, and bitcode optimizer. It also contains basic regression tests.

C-like languages use the Clang front end. This component compiles C, C++, Objective C, and Objective C++ code into LLVM bitcode -- and from there into object files, using LLVM.

Other components include: the libc++ C++ standard library, the LLD linker, and more.

Getting the Source Code and Building LLVM

The LLVM Getting Started documentation may be out of date. The Clang Getting Started page might have more accurate information.

This is an example workflow and configuration to get and build the LLVM source:

Checkout LLVM (including related subprojects like Clang):
- git clone https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git
- Or, on windows, git clone --config core.autocrlf=false https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git
Configure and build LLVM and Clang:
- cd llvm-project
- mkdir build
- cd build
- cmake -G <generator> [options] ../llvm
  Some common generators are:
  - Ninja --- for generating Ninja build files. Most llvm developers use Ninja.
  - Unix Makefiles --- for generating make-compatible parallel makefiles.
  - Visual Studio --- for generating Visual Studio projects and solutions.
  - Xcode --- for generating Xcode projects.
  Some Common options:
  - -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS='...' --- semicolon-separated list of the LLVM subprojects you'd like to additionally build. Can include any of: clang, clang-tools-extra, libcxx, libcxxabi, libunwind, lldb, compiler-rt, lld, polly, or debuginfo-tests.
    For example, to build LLVM, Clang, libcxx, and libcxxabi, use -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="clang;libcxx;libcxxabi".
  - -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=directory --- Specify for directory the full pathname of where you want the LLVM tools and libraries to be installed (default /usr/local).
  - -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=type --- Valid options for type are Debug, Release, RelWithDebInfo, and MinSizeRel. Default is Debug.
  - -DLLVM_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS=On --- Compile with assertion checks enabled (default is Yes for Debug builds, No for all other build types).
- Run your build tool of choice!
  - The default target (i.e. ninja or make) will build all of LLVM.
  - The check-all target (i.e. ninja check-all) will run the regression tests to ensure everything is in working order.
  - CMake will generate build targets for each tool and library, and most LLVM sub-projects generate their own check-<project> target.
  - Running a serial build will be slow. To improve speed, try running a parallel build. That's done by default in Ninja; for make, use make -j NNN (NNN is the number of parallel jobs, use e.g. number of CPUs you have.)
- For more information see CMake

Consult the Getting Started with LLVM page for detailed information on configuring and compiling LLVM. You can visit Directory Layout to learn about the layout of the source code tree.