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

Stephen Thomas via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Mon Oct 5 10:58:18 PDT 2015


On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> wrote:

> Instruction printing is usually slow because it uses SlotNumbering, which
> is a whole function analysis to determine what numbers to use for unnamed
> values.
>
> If printing is part of your critical path, you can use
> 'Value::print(raw_ostream&, ModuleSlotTracker&)' instead of operator<<. I
> believe it will help you do the analysis once and print many instructions.
>

Reid,

Thanks for the tip. I don't see a `Value::print()` function with that
signature. I only see `Value::print(raw_ostream&)` (from
http://llvm.org/docs/doxygen/html/classllvm_1_1Value.html). I'm using 3.6.
Is this a 3.7 thing?

Cheers,
Steve



>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Stephen Thomas via llvm-dev <
> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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