[PATCH] D20147: [WIP] DebugInfo: New metadata representation for global variables.

[Duncan P. N. Exon Smith via llvm-commits]

It would also speedup llvm-ar, and other tools that use lazy-loading.

> On 2016-Jun-02, at 15:40, Duncan P. N. Exon Smith <dexonsmith at apple.com> wrote:
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> I wonder if that's the right long term solution?
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> Lazy-loading GlobalVariables could eliminate the global constants block, and we could move GlobalVariable-related metadata out of the global metadata block as well.
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> I think lazy-loading GlobalVariables could result in important speedups for -flto=thin, and solves this problem as a side effect.
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>> On 2016-Jun-02, at 15:32, Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk> wrote:
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>> pcc added a comment.
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>> The fix I'm working on is to move the GLOBALVAR_ATTACHMENT record to the METADATA block. I'll send it out in a bit.
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>> http://reviews.llvm.org/D20147
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