[cfe-dev] clang-cl.exe (32bit) dog slow, capping at ~16.5% CPU

[Nikodemus Siivola via cfe-dev]

Thanks!

On 1 Jun 2017 12:32, "Hahnfeld, Jonas" <Hahnfeld at itc.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> If you only need debug _*information**_*, you may try RelWithDebInfo.
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> AFAIK Clang calls into the LLVM libraries. So if you compile those in
> debug mode, Clang will still be slow even if compiled as Release.
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> Cheers,
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> Jonas
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> *From:* Nikodemus Siivola [mailto:nikodemus at random-state.net]
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 1, 2017 11:28 AM
> *To:* Hahnfeld, Jonas <Hahnfeld at itc.rwth-aachen.de>
> *Cc:* cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
> *Subject:* Re: [cfe-dev] clang-cl.exe (32bit) dog slow, capping at ~16.5%
> CPU
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> Is there a way to build LLVM libraries with debug info and clang with
> release flags?
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> (I'm working on a frontend toy and figuring out what I've done to to crash
> LLVM is much easier with a debug build...)
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> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Hahnfeld, Jonas <
> Hahnfeld at itc.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
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> > cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" \
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>   -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\LLVM \
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>   -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
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>   -DLLVM_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS=On \
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>   -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=X86 \
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>   -DLLVM_ENABLE_CXX1Y=On \
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>   ../
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> CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug will result in a non-optimized compiler. Although I
> don’t have numbers at hand, you might want to set CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release.
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> Regards,
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> Jonas
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> *From:* cfe-dev [mailto:cfe-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] *On Behalf Of *Nikodemus
> Siivola via cfe-dev
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 1, 2017 9:43 AM
> *To:* cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
> *Subject:* [cfe-dev] clang-cl.exe (32bit) dog slow, capping at ~16.5% CPU
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> I was wondering why compiles were so slow and noticed that clang-cl.exe is
> never consuming more than ~16.5% CPU on my laptop. This is an i7-7700HQ,
> 32GB memory, running Windows 10 Pro.
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> Memory and disk use appear trivial as well, and the computer was otherwise
> mostly idle at the time.
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> Compiling a trivial hello-world takes 11 seconds:
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> $ clang --version
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> clang version 4.0.1
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> Target: i686-pc-windows-msvc
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> Thread model: posix
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> InstalledDir: C:\LLVM\bin
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> $ cat foo.cpp
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> #include <iostream>
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> int main()
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> {
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>     std::cout << "Yo" << std::endl;
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>     return 0;
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> }
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> $ time clang-cl foo.cpp
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> real    0m11.886s
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> user    0m0.015s
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> sys     0m0.015s
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> Compiling the same program under the Linux subsystem and clang-3.5 takes
> 0.16seconds. The Visual Studio commandline compiler is likewise almost
> instant.
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> This is release_40 from one of the git mirrors, build built as part of the
> LLVM tree using Visual Studio 2015 command prompt, with (I think, not 100%
> sure, don't know cmake well enough to figure out after the fact) the
> following cmake invovations:
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> cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" \
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>   -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:\LLVM \
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>   -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug \
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>   -DLLVM_ENABLE_ASSERTIONS=On \
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>   -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=X86 \
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>   -DLLVM_ENABLE_CXX1Y=On \
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>   ../
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> cmake --build .
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> Did I pick spectacularly stupid build options or something?
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> Any suggestions for figuring out what is going on? (Windows is not my
> regular platform so I'm a bit out of depth here.)
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> Cheers,
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>  -- nikodemus
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