- Use an enum of all field names instead of string literals
- Create a struct type with all fields optional instead of relying on
anonymous struct literals
This should provide better type inference, compile errors, and a
(subjectively) cleaner API.
These AST nodes now have a flags field and then a bunch of optional
trailing objects. The end result is lower memory usage and consequently
better performance. This is part of an ongoing effort to reduce the
amount of memory parsed ASTs take up.
Running `zig fmt` on the std lib:
* cache-misses: 2,554,321 => 2,534,745
* instructions: 3,293,220,119 => 3,302,479,874
* peak memory: 74.0 MiB => 73.0 MiB
Holding the entire std lib AST in memory at the same time:
93.9 MiB => 88.5 MiB
This is useful for saving memory when allocating an object that has many
optional components. The optional objects are allocated sequentially in
memory, and a single integer is used to represent each optional object
and whether it is present based on each corresponding bit.
This change was mostly made with `zig fmt` and this also modified some whitespace. Note that in some files, `zig fmt` produced incorrect code, so the change was made manually.
* Implements #3768. This is a sweeping breaking change that requires
many (trivial) edits to Zig source code. Array values no longer
coerced to slices; however one may use `&` to obtain a reference to
an array value, which may then be coerced to a slice.
* Adds `IrInstruction::dump`, for debugging purposes. It's useful to
call to inspect the instruction when debugging Zig IR.
* Fixes bugs with result location semantics. See the new behavior test
cases, and compile error test cases.
* Fixes bugs with `@typeInfo` not properly resolving const values.
* Behavior tests are passing but std lib tests are not yet. There
is more work to do before merging this branch.
this also deletes C string literals from the language, and then makes
the std lib changes and compiler changes necessary to get the behavior
tests and std lib tests passing again.
Tadeo Kondrak
Jan Prudil
Andrew Kelley
Dmitry Atamanov
Sahnvour
data-man
Vexu
xackus
Robin Voetter