[llvm-dev] 7-8% compile time slowdowns in LLVM 10

[Tobias Hieta via llvm-dev]

Hi Neil,

That's unfortunate - I am in the process of updating to clang 10 here and
this slow down will impact our developers as well.

If I have some time this weekend I will try to profile clang and see if I
can figure out if there is a single regression or just many smaller things.

Thanks,
Tobias

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020, 10:26 Neil Henning via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hey list,
>
> TL;DR - LLVM 10 is around 7-8% slower than LLVM 9 when compiling the same
> inputs.
>
> So here at Unity our Burst HPC# compiler uses LLVM to provide our users
> with some very optimal codegen. LLVM is used in two ways:
>
> 1. In the Unity editor we JIT compile user code.
> 2. We also have an AOT mode for when our users are building a full game.
>
> Particularly for 1., compile time really matters for us. Anything we can
> do to improve compile time will increase our users' experience when editing
> their gameplay code and seeing what effect it has on the scene they are
> using. We keep metrics of compile time as a result, and after hearing the
> concerns from the Rust folks about LLVM 10's slowdowns I had a look at our
> numbers with an upgraded LLVM 10 toolchain -  you can see a snap from the
> spreadsheet here that shows an overall 7-8% slowdown in the compiler
> https://twitter.com/sheredom/status/1247128694554087426.
>
> Also since we keep golden asm files for a huge range of important tests we
> need to preserve, I can also definitively say that the produced asm does
> not contain any significant improvements to warrant the extra compile time
> being used (some changes in register selection and a slightly better
> placement of instructions).
>
> I don't really have any answers to if or how this can be fixed, I just
> thought this was a useful data point to the community as a whole and I'd
> raise the visibility.
>
> Cheers,
> -Neil.
>
> --
> Neil Henning
> Senior Software Engineer Compiler
> unity.com
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