[LLVMdev] LLVM footprint

[Chris Lattner]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
> What is the expected footprint of a tool using the LLVM JIT?

Right now it's ~1.5 to 2M for one platform, at least on darwin.

> I have created a simple project that uses the LLVM C++ API to JIT calls 
> to XPCOM method signature... it works well, but the component DLL is 
> very large (Linux x86-74, 5.8MB optimized and stripped). Is this normal? 
> Am I linking to "too much" or not using the correct link flags?

That is large.  I'd suggest using the output of the llvm-config tool to 
pass the right options to the linker:

$ llvm-config --libs --ldflags jit native
-L/Volumes/ProjectsDisk/cvs/llvm/Debug/lib  -lpthread -lltdl -lm
/Volumes/ProjectsDisk/cvs/llvm/Debug/lib/LLVMPowerPC.o -lLLVMSelectionDAG 
-lLLVMCodeGen -lLLVMScalarOpts -lLLVMTransformUtils -lLLVMipa 
-lLLVMAnalysis /Volumes/ProjectsDisk/cvs/llvm/Debug/lib/LLVMJIT.o 
/Volumes/ProjectsDisk/cvs/llvm/Debug/lib/LLVMExecutionEngine.o 
-lLLVMTarget -lLLVMCore -lLLVMSupport -lLLVMSystem

(this is on a ppc/darwin system).

> Note that I'm not using the LLVM build system, I'm using the Mozilla build
> system and manually pulling in the libraries I needed to resolve symbols...

That should be fine.

> Note that because this is a sharedlib I had to configure LLVM with
> - --enable-pic --enable-optimize, but I used no other configure options...
> should I have? Are there features that can be disabled to reduce footprint?

LLVM uses a lot of strings in assertion messages.  building with 
'ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1 DISABLE_ASSERTIONS=1' will give a significantly 
smaller build than just an optimized build.  Also, there are lots of 
options for strip that you can play with.

Finally, there is still a lot that can be done to reduce code size.  For 
example, building a JIT links in the .s file printers in, and they have 
non-trivial size (big string tables etc).  It would be great to refactor 
the code to avoid things like this.  I wouldn't be surprised if we could 
shrink the size of a JIT down by another 30% or so.

-Chris

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