Dynamic relocations are expensive on ELF/Linux platforms because they
are applied in userspace on process startup. Therefore, it is worth
optimizing them to make PIE and PIC dylib builds faster. In +asserts
builds (non-NDEBUG), nikic identified these schedule class name string
pointers as the leading source of dynamic relocations. [1]
This change uses llvm::StringTable and the StringToOffsetTable TableGen
helper to turn the string pointers into 32-bit offsets into a separate
character array.
The number of dynamic relocations is reduced by ~60%:
❯ llvm-readelf --dyn-relocations lib/libLLVM.so | wc -l
381376 # before
155156 # after
The test suite time is modestly affected, but I'm running on a shared
noisy workstation VM with a ton of cores:
https://gist.github.com/rnk/f38882c2fe2e63d0eb58b8fffeab69de
Testing Time: 100.88s # before
Testing Time: 78.50s. # after
Testing Time: 96.25s. # before again
I haven't used any fancy hyperfine/denoising tools, but I think the
result is clearly visible and we should ship it.
[1] https://gist.github.com/nikic/554f0a544ca15d5219788f1030f78c5a
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