Previously `extract` on a `SigSpec` would always unpack it. Since a
significant amount of `SigSpec`s have one or few chunks, it's worth
having a dedicated implementation.
This is especially true, since the RTLIL frontend calls into this for
every `wire [lhs:rhs]` slice, making this `extract` take up 40% when
profiling `read_rtlil` with one of the largest coarse grained RTLIL
designs I had on hand.
With this change the `read_rtlil` profile looks like I would expect it
to look like, but I noticed that a lot of the other core RTLIL methods
also are a bit too eager with unpacking or implementing
`SigChunk`/`Const` overloads that just convert to a single chunk
`SigSpec` and forward to the implementation for that, when a direct
implementation would avoid temporary std::vector allocations. While not
relevant for `read_rtlil`, to me it looks like there might be a few easy
overall performance gains to be had by addressing this more generally.
This PR speeds up by roughly 17% across a wide spectrum of designs
tested at Google. Particularly for the mux generation pass.
Co-authored-by: Rasmus Larsen <rmlarsen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ethan Mahintorabi <ethanmoon@google.com>
This does not correctly handle an `$overwrite_tag` on a module output,
but since we currently require the user to flatten the design for
cross-module dft, this cannot be observed from within the design, only
by manually inspecting the signals in the design.
The guard is optimised out on some compilers under certain conditions (eg: LTO on GCC) as constant under C++ lifetime rules.
This is because the guard type's member is invalid to access (UB) after the type has been destroyed, resulting in
`destruct_guard.ok` being unable to be `false` according to the optimiser, based on the lifetime rules.
This patch still invokes UB (all accesses to the destroyed IdString instance are), but at least the optimiser
can't reason that destruct_guard_ok cannot be false and therefore it's safe to optimise out from its guard role.
The new bitwise case equality (`$bweqx`) and bitwise mux (`$bwmux`)
cells enable compact encoding and decoding of 3-valued logic signals
using multiple 2-valued signals.
These can be used to protect undefined flip-flop initialization values
from optimizations that are not sound for formal verification and can
help mapping all solver-provided values in witness traces for flows that
use different backends simultaneously.
