[Clang] Improve subsumption. (#132849)
The main goal of this patch is to improve the
performance of concept subsumption by
- Making sure literal (atomic) clauses are de-duplicated (Whether 2
atomic constraint is established during the initial normal form
production).
- Eagerly removing duplicated clauses.
This should minimize the risks of exponentially large formulas that can
be produced by a naive {C,D}NF transformation.
While at it, I restructured that part of the code to be a bit clearer.
Subsumption of fold expanded constraint is also cached.
---
Note that removing duplicated clauses seems to be necessary and
sufficient to have acceptable performance on anything that could be
construed as reasonable code.
Ultimately, the number of clauses is always going to be fairly small
(but $2^{fairly\ small}$ is quickly *fairly large*..).
I went too far in the rabbit hole of Tseitin transformations etc, which
was much faster but would then require to check satisfiabiliy to
establish subsumption between some constraints (although it was good
enough to pass all but ones of our tests...).
It doesn't help that the C++ standard has a very specific definition of
subsumption that is really more of an implication...
While that sort of musing is fascinating, it was ultimately a fool's
errand, at least until such time that there is more motivation for a SAT
solver in clang (clang-tidy can after all use z3!).
Here be dragons.
Fixes #122581Welcome to the LLVM project!
This repository contains the source code for LLVM, a toolkit for the construction of highly optimized compilers, optimizers, and run-time environments.
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 convert them into object files. Tools include an assembler, disassembler, bitcode analyzer, and bitcode optimizer.
C-like languages use the Clang frontend. 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.
Consult the Getting Started with LLVM page for information on building and running LLVM.
For information on how to contribute to the LLVM project, please take a look at the Contributing to LLVM guide.
Join the LLVM Discourse forums, Discord chat, LLVM Office Hours or Regular sync-ups.
The LLVM project has adopted a code of conduct for participants to all modes of communication within the project.