whitequark c34d7b13f4 ast: avoid intermediate wires/assigns when lowering to AST_MEMINIT. ... Before this commit, every initial assignment to a memory generated two wires and four assigns in a process. For unknown reasons (I did not investigate), large amounts of assigns cause quadratic slowdown later in the AST frontend, in processAst/removeSignalFromCaseTree. As a consequence, common and reasonable Verilog code, such as: reg [`WIDTH:0] mem [0:`DEPTH]; integer i; initial for (i = 0; i <= `DEPTH; i++) mem[i] = 0; took extremely long time to be processed; around 80 s for a 8-wide, 8192-deep memory. After this commit, initial assignments where address and/or data are constant (after `generate`) do not incur the cost of intermediate wires; expressions like `mem[i+1]=i^(i<<1)` are considered constant. This results in speedups of orders of magnitude for common memory sizes; it now takes merely 0.4 s to process a 8-wide, 8192-deep memory, and only 5.8 s to process a 8-wide, 131072-deep one. As a bonus, this change also results in nontrivial speedups later in the synthesis pipeline, since pass sequencing issues meant that all of these intermediate wires were subject to transformations such as width reduction, even though they existed solely to be constant folded away in `memory_collect`.		2020-02-07 00:41:54 +00:00
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ast.cc	Use "(id)" instead of "id" for types as temporary hack	2019-10-14 05:24:31 +02:00
ast.h	ast: Add support for $sformatf system function	2020-01-19 21:20:17 +00:00
dpicall.cc	Fixed trailing whitespaces	2015-07-02 11:14:30 +02:00
genrtlil.cc	sv: Switch parser to glr, prep for typedef	2019-10-03 09:54:14 +01:00
Makefile.inc	Added Verilog/AST support for DPI functions (dpi_call() still unimplemented)	2014-08-21 12:43:51 +02:00
simplify.cc	ast: avoid intermediate wires/assigns when lowering to AST_MEMINIT.	2020-02-07 00:41:54 +00:00