[LLVMdev] Analysis of polly-detect overhead in oggenc

[Sebastian Pop]

Star Tan wrote:
> I have found that the extremely expensive compile-time overhead comes from the string buffer operation for "INVALID" MACRO in the polly-detect pass.
> Attached is a hack patch file that simply remove the string buffer operation. This patch file can significantly reduce compile-time overhead when compiling big source code. For example, for oggen*8.ll,  the compile time is reduced from 40.5261 ( 51.2%) to 5.8813s (15.9%) with this patch file.

On top of your patch, I have removed from ScopDetection.cpp all printing of LLVM
values, like this:

-    INVALID(AffFunc, "Non affine access function: " << *AccessFunction);
+    INVALID(AffFunc, "Non affine access function: ");

there are a good dozen or so of these pretty printing.  With these changes the
compile time spent in ScopDetection drops dramatically to almost 0: here is the
longest running one in the compilation of an Android stack:

   2.1900 ( 13.7%)   0.0100 (  7.7%)   2.2000 ( 13.6%)   2.2009 ( 13.4%)  Polly - Detect static control parts (SCoPs)

Before these changes, the top most expensive ScopDetection time used to be a few
hundred of seconds.

Sebastian
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