[llvm-dev] Why is printing an Instruction so slow?

[Stephen Thomas via llvm-dev]

Hi all,

When writing my custom passes, I often emit log messages to llvm::errs()
like so:

llvm::errs() << "Could not handle instruction: " << *Inst << std::endl;

where Inst is a pointer to an Instruction.

I've profiled my code and found that this way of printing an Instruction
takes a very long time: indeed, it is the bottleneck of my pass.

Of course, I could always switch these log messages off for production
runs, but during development and debugging, I'd like to have them on to
make debugging much easier.

Is there a faster way to print an Instruction?

Thanks,
Steve
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