Auto merge of #60630 - nnethercote:use-Symbol-more, r=petrochenkov

Use `Symbol` more

A `Symbol` can be equated with a string (e.g. `&str`). This involves a
TLS lookup to get the chars (and a Mutex lock in a parallel compiler)
and then a char-by-char comparison. This functionality is convenient but
avoids one of the main benefits of `Symbol`s, which is fast equality
comparisons.

This PR removes the `Symbol`/string equality operations, forcing a lot
of existing string occurrences to become `Symbol`s. Fortunately, these
are almost all static strings (many are attribute names) and we can add
static `Symbol`s as necessary, and very little extra interning occurs.
The benefits are (a) a slight speedup (possibly greater in a parallel
compiler), and (b) the code is a lot more principled about `Symbol` use.
The main downside is verbosity, particularly with more `use
syntax::symbol::symbols` items.

r? @Zoxc

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/libsyntax/parse/parser.rs b/src/libsyntax/parse/parser.rs
index 559cc522810..2d6c8c54075 100644
--- a/src/libsyntax/parse/parser.rs
+++ b/src/libsyntax/parse/parser.rs
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ use crate::ptr::P;
 use crate::parse::PResult;
 use crate::ThinVec;
 use crate::tokenstream::{self, DelimSpan, TokenTree, TokenStream, TreeAndJoint};
-use crate::symbol::{keywords, Symbol};
+use crate::symbol::{keywords, sym, Symbol};
 
 use errors::{Applicability, DiagnosticBuilder, DiagnosticId, FatalError};
 use rustc_target::spec::abi::{self, Abi};
@@ -5084,7 +5084,7 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
 
                 (ident, ast::MacroDef { tokens: tokens.into(), legacy: false })
             }
-            token::Ident(ident, _) if ident.name == "macro_rules" &&
+            token::Ident(ident, _) if ident.name == sym::macro_rules &&
                                    self.look_ahead(1, |t| *t == token::Not) => {
                 let prev_span = self.prev_span;
                 self.complain_if_pub_macro(&vis.node, prev_span);
@@ -7244,7 +7244,7 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
     }
 
     fn push_directory(&mut self, id: Ident, attrs: &[Attribute]) {
-        if let Some(path) = attr::first_attr_value_str_by_name(attrs, "path") {
+        if let Some(path) = attr::first_attr_value_str_by_name(attrs, sym::path) {
             self.directory.path.to_mut().push(&path.as_str());
             self.directory.ownership = DirectoryOwnership::Owned { relative: None };
         } else {
@@ -7264,7 +7264,7 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
     }
 
     pub fn submod_path_from_attr(attrs: &[Attribute], dir_path: &Path) -> Option<PathBuf> {
-        if let Some(s) = attr::first_attr_value_str_by_name(attrs, "path") {
+        if let Some(s) = attr::first_attr_value_str_by_name(attrs, sym::path) {
             let s = s.as_str();
 
             // On windows, the base path might have the form