[Bug c++/22635] OVERLOAD should not be a linked list of trees

[Bug c++/22635] OVERLOAD should not be a linked list of trees

[steven at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #10 from steven at gcc dot gnu dot org  2009-02-22 14:01 -------
Trees were refactored, and we currently have:

struct tree_base
{
  ENUM_BITFIELD(tree_code) code : 16;
  /* 48 bits for various bitfield flags */
  union tree_ann_d *ann;
} /* So on a 64-bit host this is 128bits = 16 bytes */

struct tree_common
{
  struct tree_base; /* 16 bytes */
  tree chain; /* 8 bytes */
  tree type; /* 8 bytes */
}  /* So on a 64-bit host, tree_common is 32 bytes */

struct tree_overload
{
  struct tree_common; /* 32 bytes */
  tree function; /* 8 bytes */
}

So in total 40 bytes per tree_overload.  If a single linked list would really
be sufficient, then the ideal tree_overload would be 16 bytes (two pointers).
In reality, there are a few flags used on tree_overload, so two pointers is not
enough.  Let's say we use 4 bytes for that. Then we have an overhead of
(40/(16+4))*100% = 100% overhead.

In any normal engineering project, 100% overhead would be reason for distress.
However, as long as the G++ front end are comfortable using trees instead of
front-end specific structures in the parser, we can't do any better at this
point.  The overhead is much less than it was in the past.  It was 3% before
the tree refactoring, so it will be much less now.  And like Gaby already said:
If there are not so many of them (tree_overload objects) then it is not very
important (to squeeze out every last bit of overhead).

Therefore, closing as FIXED by Dan's refactoring.


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[Bug c++/22635] OVERLOAD should not be a linked list of trees

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-08-06 06:47 -------
Confirmed.

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[Bug c++/22635] OVERLOAD should not be a linked list of trees

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-07-24 13:23 -------
PR 12850 has the numbers.

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[Bug c++/22635] OVERLOAD should not be a linked list of trees

[giovannibajo at libero dot it]

------- Additional Comments From giovannibajo at libero dot it  2005-07-24 12:40 -------
Can you measure how much memory do all the overload nodes take in the big 
testcases? Theoretically, an OVERLOAD could measure 8 bytes or so (on 32 bit 
systems). So we currently waste more than 100 bytes per each node, but if there 
are not so many of them it is not important.

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[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-07-24 06:28 -------
If you look at both PR 8361 and 12850, they average both more than 40 Overloadeds.  Those are both 
real code so I don't know why people think this is stupid.  Also linked lists especially with extra 
locations still available is stupid.  Look OVERLOAD only takes at max a pointer and boolean.  The type is 
shared.

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[bangerth at dealii dot org]

------- Additional Comments From bangerth at dealii dot org  2005-07-24 04:59 -------
I would imagine that in real world, there are either a rather small number 
of overloads of a name (less than five) or very many (more than 20 or 30). 
Most code I've seen don't use many overloads (falling into the first class) 
but there are a few cases in libstdc++, especially in the streams and strings 
libraries, that use very many overloads. I don't know if knowledge of such 
overload set size statistics help any in finding an appropriate data 
structure, 
though... 
 
W. 

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[gdr at integrable-solutions dot net]

------- Additional Comments From gdr at integrable-solutions dot net  2005-07-24 03:32 -------
Subject: Re:  New: OVERLOAD should not be a linked list of trees

"pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

| I noticed this when looking at compile time / memory usage of PR
| 8361 and I noticed that OVERLOAD is  
| currently a link list and we only use about 2 of the fields in the
| tree which seems like a waste for a full  
| tree.  I started to change it to be a VEC but ran into problems as
| it looks like we can be in the middle of the linked list but I did
| not check for sure. 

A VEC is good for collections that do not expand often -- like temlate
parameter list after parsing, or member functions after class definition.

Consequently a vector is not a good use for reprensenting overload
sets in C++ -- they are dynamic entities that grow as the translation
unit is being compiled.

Getting rid of TREE_LIST does not necessarily mean mechanical
replacement with a VEC.

A plain single linked list should be sufficient.

-- Gaby


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[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-07-23 22:44 -------
Though fixing that still gives the same number.

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[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-07-23 22:35 -------
8361 also have simular interesting results:
average OVL length: 44.709989

But I think my counting is wrong as we can have DECL in the chain.

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[pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Additional Comments From pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org  2005-07-23 22:32 -------
I added some stats to when chaining to the ovl and got the following interesting result for PR 12850:
average OVL length: 57.498998

So we have an average length of 57 which is long and shows that we are taking too much memory 
because of this.



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