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A number of trait methods like PartialEq::eq or Hash::hash don't
actually need a distinct arm for each variant, because the code within
the arm only depends on the number and types of the fields in the
variants. We can easily exploit this fact to create less and better
code for enums with multiple variants that have no fields at all, the
extreme case being C-like enums.
For nickel.rs and its by now infamous 800 variant enum, this reduces
optimized compile times by 25% and non-optimized compile times by 40%.
Also peak memory usage is down by almost 40% (310MB down to 190MB).
To be fair, most other crates don't benefit nearly as much, because
they don't have as huge enums. The crates in the Rust distribution that
I measured saw basically no change in compile times (I only tried
optimized builds) and only 1-2% reduction in peak memory usage.
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Changes #[derive(Copy, Clone)] to use a faster impl of Clone when
both derives are present, and there are no generics in the type.
The faster impl is simply returning *self (which works because the
type is also Copy). See the comments in libsyntax_ext/deriving/clone.rs
for more details.
There are a few types which are Copy but not Clone, in violation
of the definition of Copy. These include large arrays and tuples. The
very existence of these types is arguably a bug, but in order for this
optimization not to change the applicability of #[derive(Copy, Clone)],
the faster Clone impl also injects calls to a new function,
core::clone::assert_receiver_is_clone, to verify that all members are
actually Clone.
This is not a breaking change, because pursuant to RFC 1521, any type
that implements Copy should not do any observable work in its Clone
impl.
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