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Rewrite PropertyDeclaration::id to help the optimizer.#15992

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If I’m reading the release-mode assembly correctly, before this change PropertyDeclaration::id is implemented with a computed jump:

	lea	rcx, [rip + .LJTI117_0]
	movsxd	rax, dword ptr [rcx + 4*rax]
	add	rax, rcx
	jmp	rax
.LBB117_3:
	mov	dword ptr [rdi], 65536
	mov	rax, rdi
	ret
.LBB117_2:
	mov	dword ptr [rdi], 0
	mov	rax, rdi
	ret
.LBB117_4:
	mov	dword ptr [rdi], 131072
	mov	rax, rdi
	ret
.LBB117_6:
	mov	dword ptr [rdi], 262144
	mov	rax, rdi
	ret
.LBB117_7:
	mov	dword ptr [rdi], 327680
	mov	rax, rdi
	ret

; Four similar lines repeated for each of the few hundred variants...

With Rust 1.15 (currently used for geckolib) this doesn’t change significantly. In Nightly 1.17 however, the compiled code uses a lookup table, possibly thanks to rust-lang/rust#39456.

	movq	(%rsi), %rax
	cmpq	$171, %rax
	jne	.LBB23_1
	addq	$8, %rsi
	movq	%rsi, 8(%rdi)
	movb	$1, %al
	jmp	.LBB23_3
.LBB23_1:
	xorq	$128, %rax
	leaq	.Lswitch.table.6(%rip), %rcx
	movb	(%rax,%rcx), %al
	movb	%al, 1(%rdi)
	xorl	%eax, %eax
.LBB23_3:
	movb	%al, (%rdi)
	movq	%rdi, %rax
	retq

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☔ The latest upstream changes (presumably #15997) made this pull request unmergeable. Please resolve the merge conflicts.

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Rebased, and verified that the assembly still uses a lookup table. r? @bholley

// This value is never used, but having an expression of the same "shape"
// as for other variants helps the optimizer compile this `match` expression
// to a lookup table.
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Can you add a debug_assert!(false) here? That should presumably never make it to llvm in opt builds, but be good to document that this is never reached.

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Though I guess this optimization is in MIR. Not sure whether debug! stuff has been compiled out by then.

Anyway, I'd prefer it if we can do it easily, but otherwise don't spend too much time on it.

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Done.

It’s an optimization in LLVM codegen. --emit=llvm-ir shows a switch instruction with many labels.

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bholley commented Mar 16, 2017

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If I’m reading the release-mode assembly correctly, before this change
PropertyDeclaration::id is implemented with a computed jump:

```assembly
	lea	rcx, [rip + .LJTI117_0]
	movsxd	rax, dword ptr [rcx + 4*rax]
	add	rax, rcx
	jmp	rax
.LBB117_3:
	mov	dword ptr [rdi], 65536
	mov	rax, rdi
	ret
.LBB117_2:
	mov	dword ptr [rdi], 0
	mov	rax, rdi
	ret
.LBB117_4:
	mov	dword ptr [rdi], 131072
	mov	rax, rdi
	ret
.LBB117_6:
	mov	dword ptr [rdi], 262144
	mov	rax, rdi
	ret
.LBB117_7:
	mov	dword ptr [rdi], 327680
	mov	rax, rdi
	ret

; Four similar lines repeated for each of the few hundred variants...
```

With Rust 1.15 (currently used for geckolib)
this doesn’t change significantly.
In Nightly 1.17 however, the compiled code uses a lookup table,
possibly thanks to rust-lang/rust#39456.

```assembly
	movq	(%rsi), %rax
	cmpq	$171, %rax
	jne	.LBB23_1
	addq	$8, %rsi
	movq	%rsi, 8(%rdi)
	movb	$1, %al
	jmp	.LBB23_3
.LBB23_1:
	xorq	$128, %rax
	leaq	.Lswitch.table.6(%rip), %rcx
	movb	(%rax,%rcx), %al
	movb	%al, 1(%rdi)
	xorl	%eax, %eax
.LBB23_3:
	movb	%al, (%rdi)
	movq	%rdi, %rax
	retq
```
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📌 Commit 9ff0153 has been approved by bholley

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⌛ Testing commit 9ff0153 with merge 9e8e1a4...

bors-servo pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Mar 17, 2017
Rewrite PropertyDeclaration::id to help the optimizer.

If I’m reading the release-mode assembly correctly, before this change `PropertyDeclaration::id` is implemented with a computed jump:

```assembly
	lea	rcx, [rip + .LJTI117_0]
	movsxd	rax, dword ptr [rcx + 4*rax]
	add	rax, rcx
	jmp	rax
.LBB117_3:
	mov	dword ptr [rdi], 65536
	mov	rax, rdi
	ret
.LBB117_2:
	mov	dword ptr [rdi], 0
	mov	rax, rdi
	ret
.LBB117_4:
	mov	dword ptr [rdi], 131072
	mov	rax, rdi
	ret
.LBB117_6:
	mov	dword ptr [rdi], 262144
	mov	rax, rdi
	ret
.LBB117_7:
	mov	dword ptr [rdi], 327680
	mov	rax, rdi
	ret

; Four similar lines repeated for each of the few hundred variants...
```

With Rust 1.15 (currently used for geckolib) this doesn’t change significantly. In Nightly 1.17 however, the compiled code uses a lookup table, possibly thanks to rust-lang/rust#39456.

```assembly
	movq	(%rsi), %rax
	cmpq	$171, %rax
	jne	.LBB23_1
	addq	$8, %rsi
	movq	%rsi, 8(%rdi)
	movb	$1, %al
	jmp	.LBB23_3
.LBB23_1:
	xorq	$128, %rax
	leaq	.Lswitch.table.6(%rip), %rcx
	movb	(%rax,%rcx), %al
	movb	%al, 1(%rdi)
	xorl	%eax, %eax
.LBB23_3:
	movb	%al, (%rdi)
	movq	%rdi, %rax
	retq
```

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☀️ Test successful - android, arm32, arm64, linux-dev, linux-rel-css, linux-rel-wpt, mac-dev-unit, mac-rel-css, mac-rel-wpt1, mac-rel-wpt2, windows-gnu-dev, windows-msvc-dev
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