[LLVMdev] RFC: Reduce the memory footprint of DIEs (and DIEValues)

[Yaron Keren]

>   - 0000: 845 MB (baseline)
>   - 0008: 756 MB - change DIE::Children to a linked list

That's really nice savings, more than 10% !


2015-05-24 21:55 GMT+03:00 Duncan P. N. Exon Smith <dexonsmith at apple.com>:
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> > On 2015 May 20, at 17:51, Duncan P. N. Exon Smith <dexonsmith at apple.com>
wrote:
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> >> On 2015 May 20, at 17:39, Duncan P. N. Exon Smith <dexonsmith at apple.com>
wrote:
> >>
> >> With just those four patches, memory usage went *up* slightly.  Add in
> >> the 5th patch (which does #2 below), and we get an overall memory drop
> >> of 4%.
> >
> > Forgot to post numbers for this.  Peak memory was at 920 MB before
> > the five patches, and 884 MB after.  (These exact numbers won't quite
> > reproduce in ToT since I still haven't finished cleaning up and
> > committing the MCSymbol and emitLabelDiff() work I hacked on top of,
> > but the 36 MB drop should hold.)
>
> I've cleaned all this up and committed the most obvious parts, as well
> as a few unrelated memory improvements.  I'm attaching my (almost?)
> ready-to-go patches, which have the following effects on peak memory:
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>   - 0000: 845 MB (baseline)
>   - 0001: 845 MB - refactor
>   - 0002: 879 MB - pass DIEValue by value (momentary setback)
>   - 0003: 829 MB - merge DIEAbbrevData into DIEValue
>   - 0004: 829 MB - refactor
>   - 0005: 829 MB - refactor
>   - 0006: 829 MB - refactor
>   - 0007: 764 MB - change DIE::Values to a linked list
>   - 0008: 756 MB - change DIE::Children to a linked list
>
> (Still measuring memory on `llc` for `-flto -g`; details in r236629.)
>
> @Eric, you mentioned offline you'd like to have a look at this proposal
> before I proceed -- obviously I've been impatient ;).  Let me know if
> I'm okay to move forward and start committing (modulo a couple of these
> that I'll want a review from David and Fred on).
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