[Bug tree-optimization/61034] New: Optimizing takes too many passes

glisse at gcc dot gnu.org gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Fri May 2 10:52:00 GMT 2014


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61034

            Bug ID: 61034
           Summary: Optimizing takes too many passes
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.10.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Keywords: missed-optimization
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: tree-optimization
          Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
          Reporter: glisse at gcc dot gnu.org

Hello,

when I compile the code below (-O3), I have plenty of calls to malloc left. If
I make the final expression simpler, they disappear. If I add some more
fre/copy_prop/dse/dce passes, they eventually get optimized, but the number of
passes required seems to increase with the size of the expression, which
obviously doesn't scale. Cycling through the passes seems like an obvious way
to work around this. Otherwise, I don't really know which pass to blame this
on. Maybe FRE could do better, it leaves some:

  _79 = _73; 
  _79->count = _81;
[things that don't alias, small if-then-else]
  _86 = _73;
  _87 = _86->count;

which PRE will handle later after other passes have cleaned it up a bit and
removed everything in the middle []. But it isn't at all obvious this is the
right place to improve things.

The code is a reference counted double. I was trying to optimize something more
complicated, but the simpler things have to come first...


#define assume(x) if(!(x))__builtin_unreachable()
inline void* operator new(__SIZE_TYPE__ n){ return __builtin_malloc(n); }
inline void operator delete(void *p) { __builtin_free(p); }
struct O {
  double num;
  int count;
};
struct I {
  O *o;
  I(double d = 0) : o (new O) { o->num = d; o->count = 1; }
  I(I const&i) { assume(i.o->count >= 1); o = i.o; ++o->count; }
  I& operator=(I const&i) { I(i).swap(*this); return *this; }
  ~I() { if (--o->count == 0) delete o; }
  void swap(I& i) { O *tmp = o; o = i.o; i.o = tmp; }
  I& operator*= (I const&i) {
    if (o->count > 1) *this = I(o->num);
    o->num *= i.o->num;
    return *this;
  }
  I& operator-= (I const&i) {
    if (o->count > 1) *this = I(o->num);
    o->num -= i.o->num;
    return *this;
  }
};
inline I operator* (I a, I const&b) { return a *= b; }
inline I operator- (I a, I const&b) { return a -= b; }
inline bool operator< (I const&a, I const&b) { return a.o->num < b.o->num; }

bool f(I a, I b, I c, I d) {
  return (a * d - b * c) * (a * b - c * d) < 42;
}



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