Appreciable compilation slowdown with Sync + Send markers

[arielb1]

@huon

This is a case of O(2^n). I know what the issue is, at least in my minified case.

[huon]

That’s great and I hope your knowledge helps improve performance, however my comment was directed to @DenisKolodin, providing some (hopefully reusable) tips/tools for poking around in the compiler.

[DenisKolodin]

I ran @arielb1’s example with perf record --call-graph dwarf rustc …, and then perf report indicates that 60+% of the compilation time is spent in (demangled)

Thank you! It’s very useful to me. Also I’ve never listen about DXR before

@huon could you prompt me the handy tool to explore how Rust compiler works inside? I use GDB in terminal, but it’s hard to steps through the code. Internal data exploration is tangled. What tool do you use to work with running code? I dream about something like Visual Studio But I admit that another tools can also be handy.

[huon]

I’m not sure the best way to track that sort of thing. Personally I use the logging statements that are inside it, e.g. RUST_LOG=rustc::middle::traits rustc ... will cause debug! and info! statements inside that module to print during that invocation. I believe getting debug! statements to print requires compiling a compiler manually, passing --enable-debug-assertions to ./configure. (The compiler’s RUST_LOG is similar to that in the external env_logger crate, but possibly not 100% identical.)

gdb will also work better if you build the compiler yourself and pass --enable-debuginfo to ./configure. I believe one can pass both --enable-debug-assertions and --enable-debuginfo with the --enable-debug flag, but you’ll probably want to also pass --enable-optimize to avoid getting a horribly slow compiler. Also, there’s been some unreliabilities with using a debugger on the compiler (and/or with building a compiler for a debugger) in the past, which may still exist.

(./configure accepts --help, so you don’t have to remember all the details about the various flags.)

[DenisKolodin]

I had no idea that there are more debug options! Thanks for your tips. It’s useful to me.

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