AST reader.
The global module index tracks all of the identifiers known to a set
of module files. Lookup of those identifiers looks first in the global
module index, which returns the set of module files in which that
identifier can be found. The AST reader only needs to look into those
module files and any module files not known to the global index (e.g.,
because they were (re)built after the global index), reducing the
number of on-disk hash tables to visit. For an example source I'm
looking at, we go from 237844 total identifier lookups into on-disk
hash tables down to 126817.
Unfortunately, this does not translate into a performance advantage.
At best, it's a wash once the global module index has been built, but
that's ignore the cost of building the global module index (which
is itself fairly large). Profiles show that the global module index
code is far less efficient than it should be; optimizing it might give
enough of an advantage to justify its continued inclusion.
llvm-svn: 173405
The global module index is a "global" index for all of the module
files within a particular subdirectory in the module cache, which
keeps track of all of the "interesting" identifiers and selectors
known in each of the module files. One can perform a fast lookup in
the index to determine which module files will have more information
about entities with a particular name/selector. This information can
help eliminate redundant lookups into module files (a serious
performance problem) and help with creating auto-import/auto-include
Fix-Its.
The global module index is created or updated at the end of a
translation unit that has triggered a (re)build of a module by
scraping all of the .pcm files out of the module cache subdirectory,
so it catches everything. As with module rebuilds, we use the file
system's atomicity to synchronize.
llvm-svn: 173301
