[llvm-dev] RFC: Improving the performance of ItaniumDemangle

[Rafael Espíndola via llvm-dev]

On 25 April 2017 at 15:36, Vedant Kumar <vsk at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Apr 25, 2017, at 12:24 PM, Scott Smith <scott.smith at purestorage.com> wrote:
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>> well, top-of-branch lldb uses this code, that's how I found it.  Do you mean libc++'s demangler?
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> Thanks for explaining, this is the first time I'm looking at the demangler situation. It looks like libcxxabi has an arena-based demangler, and that the one in llvm is different.
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> I'm confused by this because the comment in llvm says that libcxxabi is supposed to reuse the llvm demangler. This doesn't seem to be happening, right?

The one in llvm required a few changes to be more portable. If it can
be made faster that is a good thing.

If possible you should make the change in libcxxabi and copy the code
to llvm given the license difference between the two.

Cheers,
Rafael