On Oct 27, 2011, at 8:07 AM, Douglas Gregor wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2011, at 2:52 AM, Douglas Gregor wrote:
>> On Oct 27, 2011, at 2:45 AM, John McCall wrote:
>>> On Oct 27, 2011, at 2:33 AM, Douglas Gregor wrote:
>>>> The results of this optimization are fairly dramatic. On a small
>>>> application that brings in 14 non-trivial modules, this takes modules
>>>> from being > 3x slower than a "perfect" PCH file down to 30% slower
>>>> for a full rebuild. A partial rebuild (where the PCH file or modules
>>>> can be re-used) is down to 7% slower. Making the PCH file just a
>>>> little imperfect (e.g., adding two smallish modules used by a bunch of
>>>> .m files that aren't in the PCH file) tips the scales in favor of the
>>>> modules approach, with 24% faster partial rebuilds.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> You've added an extra generally-not-taken branch to the lexing
>>> of every single identifier-like token;  
>> 
>> Untrue! The out-of-date bit for identifiers feeds into 
>> NeedsHandleIdentifier. So, in the no-PCH/no-modules case, we only pay the 
>> cost of checking this bit for those identifiers that already have something 
>> else interesting going on (e.g., they are poisoned, or need to be macro 
>> expanded, or anything else HandleIdentifier does). In the PCH/modules case, 
>> we pay the cost of checking that bit once for each known identifier that is 
>> uttered after a module import.
>> 
>>> I wouldn't expect that to be
>>> significant, but have you measured and verified that?
>> 
>> 
>> If I actually checked the bit in the hot path of the lexer, it would be a 
>> significant regression. But, I'll double-check.
> 
> Verified. There's no measurable performance difference.

Thanks!

John.
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