Review Request 111643: RFC: Use QHash for TypeSystem registry

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This review has been submitted with commit 63328cb332c1c647b42ca2efd6fe5214f77a7402 by Milian Wolff to branch master.

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On July 22, 2013, 6:41 p.m., Milian Wolff wrote:
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> (Updated July 22, 2013, 6:41 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDevelop.
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> Description
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> Use a QHash instead of a fixed-size QVector for the type system registry.
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> While this is of course slower, the impact is imo negleglible. The benchmark
> shows that the TypeSystem becomes ~20% slower, but that is still nothing in
> total compared to other parts of KDevelop which are actually much slower.
> Thus, limiting the API in such a drastic way (only up to N types) is imo
> not worth it. Instead we can take the small performance impact and improve
> the performance elsewhere :)
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> Also note that to encounter a slowdown of ~1s one would need to call the TypeSystem
> functions approx. 45 million times. Setting a counter breakpoint on TypeSystem::create
> shows that it's being called less than one million times when loading my biggest KDevelop
> session. So yeah, I think we can safely ignore this time impact and classify the existing
> code as a premature optimization.
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> Diffs
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>   language/duchain/types/typeregister.h 4843eec 
>   language/duchain/types/typeregister.cpp 90ed05f 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/111643/diff/
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> Testing
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> Before this patch:
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> PASS   : TestDUChain::initTestCase()
> RESULT : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry():"dataClassSize":
>      0.0000299 msecs per iteration (total: 299, iterations: 10000000)
> RESULT : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry():"dynamicSize":
>      0.0000438 msecs per iteration (total: 438, iterations: 10000000)
> RESULT : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry():"create":
>      0.0001276 msecs per iteration (total: 1,276, iterations: 10000000)
> RESULT : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry():"isFactoryLoaded":
>      0.0000271 msecs per iteration (total: 271, iterations: 10000000)
> RESULT : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry():"copy":
>      0.0001812 msecs per iteration (total: 1,812, iterations: 10000000)
> RESULT : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry():"copyNonDynamic":
>      0.0000409 msecs per iteration (total: 409, iterations: 10000000)
> RESULT : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry():"callDestructor":
>      0.0000306 msecs per iteration (total: 306, iterations: 10000000)
> PASS   : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry()
> PASS   : TestDUChain::cleanupTestCase()
> Totals: 3 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped
> ********* Finished testing of TestDUChain *********
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>  Performance counter stats for './duchaintest benchTypeRegistry -iterations 10000000':
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>       10077.560833 task-clock                #    0.995 CPUs utilized          
>                214 context-switches          #    0.021 K/sec                  
>                 36 cpu-migrations            #    0.004 K/sec                  
>            171,631 page-faults               #    0.017 M/sec                  
>     11,717,686,879 cycles                    #    1.163 GHz                     [83.35%]
>      3,725,598,695 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   31.79% frontend cycles idle    [83.32%]
>      1,212,888,069 stalled-cycles-backend    #   10.35% backend  cycles idle    [66.74%]
>     19,470,323,749 instructions              #    1.66  insns per cycle        
>                                              #    0.19  stalled cycles per insn [83.36%]
>      5,693,920,745 branches                  #  565.010 M/sec                   [83.33%]
>          1,995,259 branch-misses             #    0.04% of all branches         [83.27%]
> 
>       10.124920649 seconds time elapsed
> 
> After this patch:
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> PASS   : TestDUChain::initTestCase()
> RESULT : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry():"dataClassSize":
>      0.0000310 msecs per iteration (total: 310, iterations: 10000000)
> RESULT : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry():"dynamicSize":
>      0.0000574 msecs per iteration (total: 574, iterations: 10000000)
> RESULT : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry():"create":
>      0.0001497 msecs per iteration (total: 1,497, iterations: 10000000)
> RESULT : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry():"isFactoryLoaded":
>      0.0000349 msecs per iteration (total: 349, iterations: 10000000)
> RESULT : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry():"copy":
>      0.0001863 msecs per iteration (total: 1,863, iterations: 10000000)
> RESULT : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry():"copyNonDynamic":
>      0.0000522 msecs per iteration (total: 522, iterations: 10000000)
> RESULT : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry():"callDestructor":
>      0.0000480 msecs per iteration (total: 480, iterations: 10000000)
> PASS   : TestDUChain::benchTypeRegistry()
> PASS   : TestDUChain::cleanupTestCase()
> Totals: 3 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped
> ********* Finished testing of TestDUChain *********
> 
>  Performance counter stats for './duchaintest benchTypeRegistry -iterations 10000000':
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>       11514.425401 task-clock                #    0.992 CPUs utilized          
>                463 context-switches          #    0.040 K/sec                  
>                 65 cpu-migrations            #    0.006 K/sec                  
>            171,639 page-faults               #    0.015 M/sec                  
>     14,606,973,287 cycles                    #    1.269 GHz                     [83.36%]
>      5,286,680,376 stalled-cycles-frontend   #   36.19% frontend cycles idle    [83.24%]
>      2,277,868,635 stalled-cycles-backend    #   15.59% backend  cycles idle    [66.67%]
>     21,485,714,055 instructions              #    1.47  insns per cycle        
>                                              #    0.25  stalled cycles per insn [83.29%]
>      6,111,305,415 branches                  #  530.752 M/sec                   [83.38%]
>          2,157,996 branch-misses             #    0.04% of all branches         [83.35%]
> 
>       11.609370777 seconds time elapsed
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Milian Wolff
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