[PATCH] D35334: ThinLTO Minimized Bitcode File Size Reduction

[Haojie Wang via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

haojiewang added inline comments.


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Comment at: lib/Bitcode/Writer/BitcodeWriter.cpp:4031
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pcc wrote:
> haojiewang wrote:
> > pcc wrote:
> > > With this call you're emitting a lot of unnecessary information into the minimized bitcode file. As I was suggesting on the other thread I wonder whether you can just emit "short" module-level records that just contain the name and the linkage (maybe see if you can drop the linkage, as it should already be available in the summary).
> > Yes, this is what I'm going to do after this patch released. So do you suggest I do it in this patch or leave it to next patch?
> I would suggest writing an initial patch that changes the index bitcode reader to read the linkage from the summary instead of from the module, and then once that lands do what I suggested in this patch.
If it is ok that we do that after this patch? Because I think module info have too much redundancy info for minimized bitcode file, most of which is necessary for IR bitcode file. We can add a new writeModuleInfo for minimized bitcode file after this patch, and then also change the bitcode reader. That can get 5%-10% benefit on size reduction.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D35334