This patch significantly improves performance of the YAML serializer by
optimizing `YAML::isNumeric` function. This function is called on the
most strings and is highly inefficient for two reasons:
* It uses `Regex`, which is parsed and compiled each time this
function is called
* It uses multiple passes which are not necessary
This patch introduces stateful ad hoc YAML number parser which does not
rely on `Regex`. It also fixes YAML number format inconsistency: current
implementation supports C-stile octal number format (`01234567`) which
was present in YAML 1.0 specialization (http://yaml.org/spec/1.0/),
[Section 2.4. Tags, Example 2.19] but was deprecated and is no longer
present in latest YAML 1.2 specification
(http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html), see [Section 10.3.2. Tag
Resolution]. Since the rest of the rest of the implementation does not
support other deprecated YAML 1.0 numeric features such as sexagecimal
numbers, commas as delimiters it is treated as inconsistency and not
longer supported. This patch also adds unit tests to ensure the validity
of proposed implementation.
This performance bottleneck was identified while profiling Clangd's
global-symbol-builder tool with my colleague @ilya-biryukov. The
substantial part of the runtime was spent during a single-thread Reduce
phase, which concludes with YAML serialization of collected symbol
collection. Regex matching was accountable for approximately 45% of the
whole runtime (which involves sharded Map phase), now it is reduced to
18% (which is spent in `clang::clangd::CanonicalIncludes` and can be
also optimized because all used regexes are in fact either suffix
matches or exact matches).
`llvm-yaml-numeric-parser-fuzzer` was used to ensure the validity of the
proposed regex replacement. Fuzzing for ~60 hours using 10 threads did
not expose any bugs.
Benchmarking `global-symbol-builder` (using `hyperfine --warmup 2
--min-runs 5 'command 1' 'command 2'`) tool by processing a reasonable
amount of code (26 source files matched by
`clang-tools-extra/clangd/*.cpp` with all transitive includes) confirmed
our understanding of the performance bottleneck nature as it speeds up
the command by the factor of 1.6x:
| Command | Mean [s] | Min…Max [s] |
| this patch (D50839) | 84.7 ± 0.6 | 83.3…84.7 |
| master (rL339849) | 133.1 ± 0.8 | 132.4…134.6 |
Using smaller samples (e.g. by collecting symbols from
`clang-tools-extra/clangd/AST.cpp` only) yields even better performance
improvement, which is expected because Map phase takes less time
compared to Reduce and is 2.05x faster and therefore would significantly
improve the performance of standalone YAML serializations.
| Command | Mean [ms] | Min…Max [ms] |
| this patch (D50839) | 3702.2 ± 48.7 | 3635.1…3752.3 |
| master (rL339849) | 7607.6 ± 109.5 | 7533.3…7796.4 |
Reviewed by: zturner, ilya-biryukov
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D50839
llvm-svn: 340154
Simon Pilgrim