Global variable initializers like
var myErr error = &myError{"msg"}
have been converted to statically initialized data
from the earliest days of Go: there is no init-time
execution or allocation for that line of code.
But if the expression is moved into an inlinable function,
the static initialization no longer happens.
That is, this code has always executed and allocated
at init time, even after we added inlining to the compiler,
which should in theory make this code equivalent to
the original:
func NewError(s string) error { return &myError{s} }
var myErr2 = NewError("msg")
This CL makes the static initialization rewriter understand
inlined functions consisting of a single return statement,
like in this example, so that myErr2 can be implemented as
statically initialized data too, just like myErr, with no init-time
execution or allocation.
A real example of code that benefits from this rewrite is
all globally declared errors created with errors.New, like
package io
var EOF = errors.New("EOF")
Package io no longer has to allocate and initialize EOF each
time a program starts.
Another example of code that benefits is any globally declared
godebug setting (using the API from CL 449504), like
package http
var http2server = godebug.New("http2server")
These are no longer allocated and initialized at program startup either.
The list of functions that are inlined into static initializers when
compiling std and cmd (along with how many times each occurs) is:
cmd/compile/internal/ssa.StringToAux (3)
cmd/compile/internal/walk.mkmapnames (4)
errors.New (360)
go/ast.NewIdent (1)
go/constant.MakeBool (4)
go/constant.MakeInt64 (3)
image.NewUniform (4)
image/color.ModelFunc (11)
internal/godebug.New (12)
vendor/golang.org/x/text/unicode/bidi.newBidiTrie (1)
vendor/golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm.newNfcTrie (1)
vendor/golang.org/x/text/unicode/norm.newNfkcTrie (1)
For the cmd/go binary, this CL cuts the number of init-time
allocations from about 1920 to about 1620 (a 15% reduction).
The total executable code footprint of init functions is reduced
by 24kB, from 137kB to 113kB (an 18% reduction).
The overall binary size is reduced by 45kB,
from 15.335MB to 15.290MB (a 0.3% reduction).
(The binary size savings is larger than the executable code savings
because every byte of executable code also requires corresponding
runtime tables for unwinding, source-line mapping, and so on.)
Also merge test/sinit_run.go, which had stopped testing anything
at all as of CL 161337 (Feb 2019) and initempty.go into a new test
noinit.go.
Fixes#30820.
Change-Id: I52f7275b1ac2a0a32e22c29f9095071c7b1fac20
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/450136
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