Make multiple imports of the same header only parse it once per C++
domain. Reuse of the same header in `--share-cpp-ast` mode now reuses
the representation.
Importing a Carbon file with C++ dependencies now makes those transitive
C++ dependencies in the same C++ domain visible too.
Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
Instead of creating a CodeGenerator per CppDomain, and then crashing in
lowering when we try to consume the same llvm Module multiple times,
create a CodeGenerator for each CppFile within the domain.
For now, we mulitplex all of Clang's ASTConsumer output to all code
generators, which means that any strong external definitions within a
Carbon file (for example, in an inline `Cpp` fragment) will be emitted
to all output files in the same `CppDomain`, resulting in link errors
due to symbol redefinitions. This will be addressed later. But this
should be sufficient for Carbon compilations in which such symbols are
not defined.
We also don't yet attempt to classify which compilations will need C++
code generation, and instead create a clang `CodeGenerator` for every
Carbon file that has C++ imports. For `carbom compile`, only one Carbon
file will need code generation, and yet we still build multiple
`CodeGenerator` objects in general. Fixing this requires more plumbing
from the driver, and this will also be handled in a follow-up.
Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
Instead of building one Clang `ASTContext` per compilation, the
`--share-cpp-ast` flag causes us to build a single `ASTContext` and
share it across all contexts. One new abstraction is added: `CppDomain`
represents the Carbon-side view of a Clang AST that might be shared
across multiple `SemIR::File`s. This object owns the Clang instance and
the AST.
For now, we have no isolation between the C++ state exposed to different
Carbon compilations, and we have no multiplexing of generated LLVM IR
from C++ into different Carbon compilations, so the mode is not usable
yet. The plan is to keep it behind a flag until it's ready.
Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
Fundamentally, this uses forward declarations of Clang types to reduce
the overall compile time cost of Clang headers across the codebase.
Tracing and profiling showed ~2s of every check TU's ~8-12s compile time
going just to parsing Clang frontend and AST headers pulled in via a few
sem_ir and check headers that only use the Clang types by pointer or
reference:
- sem_ir/cpp_file.h (reached via sem_ir/file.h by ~150 TUs) included
clang/Frontend/CompilerInstance.h, clang/CodeGen/ModuleBuilder.h,
clang/AST/Mangle.h, and llvm/IR/Module.h. CppFile's accessors move out
of line to a new cpp_file.cpp and the header now forward-declares the
Clang types.
- check/cpp/context.h (reached via check/context.h by ~100 TUs) included
clang/Frontend/FrontendAction.h and clang/Parse/Parser.h, pulling in
clang's Sema.h and ASTUnit.h.
- sem_ir/clang_decl.h included clang/AST/Decl.h; the three small
functions that need complete Clang types move out of line.
- sem_ir/cpp_overload_set.h included clang/Sema/Overload.h solely for
the three-field OverloadCandidateSet::OperatorRewriteInfo, which is now
mirrored as CppOverloadSet::OperatorRewriteInfo, and clang/AST/Decl.h
solely for a pointer.
- sem_ir/name_scope.h's clang/AST/DeclBase.h include was vestigial.
TUs (and more narrowly included headers) that genuinely use the Clang
definitions now include the Clang headers directly.
Representative compile times (fastbuild, aarch64), combined with the
preceding instantiation-cost changes, relative to trunk:
- check/eval.cpp: 11.85s -> 6.94s (-41%)
- check/handle_operator.cpp: 7.71s -> 3.30s (-57%)
- language_server.cpp: 6.68s -> 3.16s (-53%)
- lower/handle.cpp: 6.75s -> 3.66s (-46%)
- sem_ir/file.cpp: 8.60s -> 6.11s (-29%)
- driver.cpp: 6.68s -> 4.78s (-28%)
Measured full-rebuild impact (316 first-party TUs, fastbuild): -689.5s
CPU, -29.9% relative to trunk.
Assisted-by: Claude
This intends to avoid proliferation of dependencies on the exact API of
`clang::ASTUnit`, and would enable us to more easily switch to a
different approach that gives us more control over the construction of
the Clang AST.
Also remove some unnecessary tracking of the `CppFile` and instead
always retrieve it from the `SemIR::File`.
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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
Richard Smith
Chandler Carruth
