Using fwrite and fread was very *very* slow. The resulting code was multiple
times slower than GCC's implementation of gcov. Replace the fwrite/fread system
with an mmap() version.
If the `.gcda' file doesn't exist, we (re)allocate a buffer that we write
into. That gets written to the `.gcda' file in one chunk. If the `.gcda' file
already exists, we simply mmap() the file, modify the mapped data, and use
msync() to write the contents out to disk. It's much easier than implementing
our own buffering scheme, and we don't have to use fwrite's and fread's
buffering.
For those who are numbers-oriented, here are some timings:
GCC Verison
-----------
`.gcda' files don't exist: 23s
`.gcda' files do exist: 14s
LLVM Version (before this change)
---------------------------------
`.gcda' files don't exist: 28s
`.gcda' files do exist: 28s
LLVM Version (with this change)
-------------------------------
`.gcda' files don't exist: 18s
`.gcda' files do exist: 4s
It's a win-win-win-win-lose-win-win scenario!
<rdar://problem/13466086>
llvm-svn: 182563
- Motivation is explained in the README, but basically it is convenient to be
able to build compiler-rt free standing. Since our external dependencies are
so small, we can achieve this relatively easily by just stubbing out the
declarations of the external dependencies.
- This is in no way, shape, or form intended to be complete, it is just the
minimal stubs necessary to support the stuff we use.
llvm-svn: 144843
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