[LLVMdev] Timing the IRReader

[Eli Bendersky]

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On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at google.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While doing various profiling runs of llc, it's easy to notice that
> some wall-clock time is not accounted for by -time-passes (e.g. only 7
> out of 9.2 seconds for compiling gcc). Some of the "lost" time is in
> reading the bitcode file (~ 1 sec). When reading textual IR, its
> parsing actually takes almost as much time as doing the actual -O0
> compilation!
>
> I think it would be useful if we could ask the tools to time how long
> IR reading took (perhaps expanding it later to break down
> materialization, etc). In addition to significantly minimizing
> un-accounted time, this can facilitate future attempts to optimize the
> IR reading code. Any objections/insights?
>
> If this is deemed useful, there's the question of implementation.
>
> 1. Piggybacking on time-passes (like DWARF dumping does) is probably
> not the "right thing to do", and hard to implement too since some
> tools like llvm-diff don't even link in the pass infrastructure (which
> defines the required globals).
> 2. Creating a separate flag is feasible, but IRReader is currently
> header-only. So an implementation file has to be created to hold the
> actual flag.
> 3. Any other ideas?
>
> Eli