The next commit will change the implementation of func values on Linux
as a result of switching to a task-based scheduler. To keep the
compiler/testdata/func.go test working as expected, switch to
WebAssembly tests.
This allows better escape analysis even without being able to see the
entire program. This makes the stack allocation test case more complete
but probably won't have much of an effect outside of that (as the
compiler is able to infer these attributes in the whole-program
functionattrs pass).
An allocated object is never nil, so there is no need for a nil check.
This probably does not result in any better optimization (the nil check
is easily optimized away by LLVM because the result of runtime.alloc is
marked nonnull) but it makes the slice tests a bit cleaner.
This commit switches from the previous behavior of compiling the whole
program at once, to compiling every package in parallel and linking the
LLVM bitcode files together for further whole-program optimization.
This is a small performance win, but it has several advantages in the
future:
- There are many more things that can be done per package in parallel,
avoiding the bottleneck at the end of the compiler phase. This
should speed up the compiler futher.
- This change is a necessary step towards a non-LTO build mode for
fast incremental builds that only rebuild the changed package, when
compiler speed is more important than binary size.
- This change refactors the compiler in such a way that it will be
easier to inspect the IR for one package only. Inspecting this IR
will be very helpful for compiler developers.
This commit finally introduces unit tests for the compiler, to check
whether input Go code is converted to the expected output IR.
To make this necessary, a few refactors were needed. Hopefully these
refactors (to compile a program package by package instead of all at
once) will eventually become standard, so that packages can all be
compiled separate from each other and be cached between compiles.
