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cxxrtl: disable optimization of debug_items().

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Implementing outlining has greatly increased the amount of debug
information in a typical build, and consequently exposed performance
issues in C++ compilers, which are similar for both GCC and Clang;
the compile time of Minerva SoC SRAM increased almost twofold.

Although one would expect the slowdown to be caused by the increased
use of templates in `debug_eval()`, it is actually almost entirely
attributable to optimizations and codegen for `debug_items()`.

Fortunately, it is neither possible nor desirable to optimize
`debug_items()`: in most cases it is called exactly once, and its
body is a linear sequence of calls with unique arguments.

This commit turns off optimizations for `debug_items()` on GCC and
Clang, improving -Os compile time of Minerva SoC SRAM by ~40% (!)
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whitequark 2020-12-13 18:16:55 +00:00
parent 4d40595d64
commit f75bc6c7aa
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backends/cxxrtl/cxxrtl.h
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#include <backends/cxxrtl/cxxrtl_capi.h>
#ifndef __has_attribute
# define __has_attribute(x) 0
#endif
// CXXRTL essentially uses the C++ compiler as a hygienic macro engine that feeds an instruction selector.
// It generates a lot of specialized template functions with relatively large bodies that, when inlined
// into the caller and (for those with loops) unrolled, often expose many new optimization opportunities.
// Because of this, most of the CXXRTL runtime must be always inlined for best performance.
#ifndef __has_attribute
# define __has_attribute(x) 0
#endif
#if __has_attribute(always_inline)
#define CXXRTL_ALWAYS_INLINE inline __attribute__((__always_inline__))
#else
#define CXXRTL_ALWAYS_INLINE inline
#endif
// Conversely, some functions in the generated code are extremely large yet very cold, with both of these
// properties being extreme enough to confuse C++ compilers into spending pathological amounts of time
// on a futile (the code becomes worse) attempt to optimize the least important parts of code.
#if __has_attribute(optnone)
#define CXXRTL_EXTREMELY_COLD __attribute__((__optnone__))
#elif __has_attribute(optimize)
#define CXXRTL_EXTREMELY_COLD __attribute__((__optimize__(0)))
#else
#define CXXRTL_EXTREMELY_COLD
#endif
// CXXRTL uses assert() to check for C++ contract violations (which may result in e.g. undefined behavior
// of the simulation code itself), and CXXRTL_ASSERT to check for RTL contract violations (which may at