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[SR-15147] Improve elision of integer overflow checks #57473

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Lukasa opened this issue Sep 3, 2021 · 2 comments
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[SR-15147] Improve elision of integer overflow checks #57473

Lukasa opened this issue Sep 3, 2021 · 2 comments
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Lukasa commented Sep 3, 2021

Previous ID SR-15147
Radar rdar://problem/82716181
Original Reporter @Lukasa
Type Improvement
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Component/s Compiler
Labels Improvement, Performance
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Priority Medium

md5: 476598b20bd5b80905c31e6907cb796c

Issue Description:

Consider the following code:

func countTrue(_ elements: [Bool]) -> Int {
    var count = 0

    for element in elements {
        if element {
            count += 1
        }
    }

    return count
}

By simple code inspection we can observe that the addition in count += 1 cannot possibly overflow: the maximum possible value of count is elements.count, and that is stored in an Int, so we cannot possibly exceed that value.

It seems as though it might be useful to have an optimisation pass to observe these kinds of changes. The branches for overflow detection don't really incur a cost in performance in-and-of-themselves, but they either cause increased code size (when using -Osize) or inhibit vectorisation (when using -O).

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Lukasa commented Sep 3, 2021

@swift-ci create

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This is something which is best done on LLVM level

@swift-ci swift-ci transferred this issue from apple/swift-issues Apr 25, 2022
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