Depending on who you ask, PGO grants a 15%-25% improvement in build
times when using clang. Sadly, hooking everything up properly to
generate a profile and apply it to clang isn't always straightforward.
This script (and the accompanying docs) aim to make this process easier;
ideally, a single invocation of the given script.
In terms of testing, I've got a cronjob on my Debian box that's meant to
run this a few times per week, and I tried manually running it on a puny
Gentoo box I have (four whole Atom cores!). Nothing obviously broke.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't know if we have a Python style guide, so I just shoved this
through yapf with all the defaults on.
Finally, though the focus is clang at the moment, the hope is that this
is easily applicable to other LLVM-y tools with minimal effort (e.g.
lld, opt, ...). Hence, this lives in llvm/utils and tries to be somewhat
ambiguous about naming.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53598
llvm-svn: 345427
Nico Weber