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Josh Bleecher Snyder 6664ccb453 cmd/compile: compile more complex functions first
When using a concurrent backend,
the overall compilation time is bounded
in part by the slowest function to compile.
The number of top-level statements in a function
is an easily calculated and fairly reliable
proxy for compilation time.

Here's a standard compilecmp output for -c=8 with this CL:

name       old time/op       new time/op       delta
Template         127ms ± 4%        125ms ± 6%   -1.33%  (p=0.000 n=47+50)
Unicode         84.8ms ± 4%       84.5ms ± 4%     ~     (p=0.217 n=49+49)
GoTypes          289ms ± 3%        287ms ± 3%   -0.78%  (p=0.002 n=48+50)
Compiler         1.36s ± 3%        1.34s ± 2%   -1.29%  (p=0.000 n=49+47)
SSA              2.95s ± 3%        2.77s ± 4%   -6.23%  (p=0.000 n=50+49)
Flate           70.7ms ± 3%       70.9ms ± 2%     ~     (p=0.112 n=50+49)
GoParser        85.0ms ± 3%       83.0ms ± 4%   -2.31%  (p=0.000 n=48+49)
Reflect          229ms ± 3%        225ms ± 4%   -1.83%  (p=0.000 n=49+49)
Tar             70.2ms ± 3%       69.4ms ± 3%   -1.17%  (p=0.000 n=49+49)
XML              115ms ± 7%        114ms ± 6%     ~     (p=0.158 n=49+47)

name       old user-time/op  new user-time/op  delta
Template         352ms ± 5%        342ms ± 8%   -2.74%  (p=0.000 n=49+50)
Unicode          117ms ± 5%        118ms ± 4%   +0.88%  (p=0.005 n=46+48)
GoTypes          986ms ± 3%        980ms ± 4%     ~     (p=0.110 n=46+48)
Compiler         4.39s ± 2%        4.43s ± 4%   +0.97%  (p=0.002 n=50+50)
SSA              12.0s ± 2%        13.3s ± 3%  +11.33%  (p=0.000 n=49+49)
Flate            222ms ± 5%        219ms ± 6%   -1.56%  (p=0.002 n=50+50)
GoParser         271ms ± 5%        268ms ± 4%   -0.83%  (p=0.036 n=49+48)
Reflect          560ms ± 4%        571ms ± 3%   +1.90%  (p=0.000 n=50+49)
Tar              183ms ± 3%        183ms ± 3%     ~     (p=0.903 n=45+50)
XML              364ms ±13%        391ms ± 4%   +7.16%  (p=0.000 n=50+40)

A more interesting way of viewing the data is by
looking at the ratio of the time taken to compile
the slowest-to-compile function to the overall
time spent compiling functions.

If this ratio is small (near 0), then increased concurrency might help.
If this ratio is big (near 1), then we're bounded by that single function.

I instrumented the compiler to emit this ratio per-package,
ran 'go build -a -gcflags=-c=C -p=P std cmd' three times,
for varying values of C and P,
and collected the ratios encountered into an ASCII histogram.

Here's c=1 p=1, which is a non-concurrent backend, single process at a time:

 90%|
 80%|
 70%|
 60%|
 50%|
 40%|
 30%|
 20%|**
 10%|***
  0%|*********
----+----------
    |0123456789

The x-axis is floor(10*ratio), so the first column indicates the percent of
ratios that fell in the 0% to 9.9999% range.
We can see in this histogram that more concurrency will help;
in most cases, the ratio is small.

Here's c=8 p=1, before this CL:

 90%|
 80%|
 70%|
 60%|
 50%|
 40%|
 30%|         *
 20%|         *
 10%|*   *    *
  0%|**********
----+----------
    |0123456789

In 30-40% of cases, we're mostly bound by the compilation time
of a single function.

Here's c=8 p=1, after this CL:

 90%|
 80%|
 70%|
 60%|
 50%|         *
 40%|         *
 30%|         *
 20%|         *
 10%|         *
  0%|**********
----+----------
    |0123456789

The sorting pays off; we are bound by the
compilation time of a single function in over half of packages.
The single * in the histogram indicates 0-10%.
The actual values for this chart are:
0: 5%, 1: 1%, 2: 1%, 3: 4%, 4: 5%, 5: 7%, 6: 7%, 7: 7%, 8: 9%, 9: 55%

This indicates that efforts to increase or enable more concurrency,
e.g. by optimizing mutexes or increasing the value of c,
will probably not yield fruit.
That matches what compilecmp tells us.

Further optimization efforts should thus focus instead on one of:

(1) making more functions compile concurrently
(2) improving the compilation time of the slowest functions
(3) speeding up the remaining serial parts of the compiler
(4) automatically splitting up some large autogenerated functions
    into small ones, as discussed in #19751

I hope to spend more time on (1) before the freeze.

Adding process parallelism doesn't change the story much.
For example, here's c=8 p=8, after this CL:

 90%|
 80%|
 70%|
 60%|
 50%|
 40%|         *
 30%|         *
 20%|         *
 10%|       ***
  0%|**********
----+----------
    |0123456789

Since we don't need to worry much about p,
these histograms can help us select a good
general value of c to use as a default,
assuming we're not bounded by GOMAXPROCS.

Here are some charts after this CL, for c from 1 to 8:

c=1 p=1

 90%|
 80%|
 70%|
 60%|
 50%|
 40%|
 30%|
 20%|**
 10%|***
  0%|*********
----+----------
    |0123456789

c=2 p=1

 90%|
 80%|
 70%|
 60%|
 50%|
 40%|
 30%|
 20%|
 10%| ****    *
  0%|**********
----+----------
    |0123456789

c=3 p=1

 90%|
 80%|
 70%|
 60%|
 50%|
 40%|
 30%|
 20%|         *
 10%|  ** *   *
  0%|**********
----+----------
    |0123456789

c=4 p=1

 90%|
 80%|
 70%|
 60%|
 50%|
 40%|
 30%|         *
 20%|         *
 10%|     *   *
  0%|**********
----+----------
    |0123456789

c=5 p=1

 90%|
 80%|
 70%|
 60%|
 50%|
 40%|
 30%|         *
 20%|         *
 10%|     *   *
  0%|**********
----+----------
    |0123456789

c=6 p=1

 90%|
 80%|
 70%|
 60%|
 50%|
 40%|         *
 30%|         *
 20%|         *
 10%|         *
  0%|**********
----+----------
    |0123456789

c=7 p=1

 90%|
 80%|
 70%|
 60%|
 50%|         *
 40%|         *
 30%|         *
 20%|         *
 10%|        **
  0%|**********
----+----------
    |0123456789

c=8 p=1

 90%|
 80%|
 70%|
 60%|
 50%|         *
 40%|         *
 30%|         *
 20%|         *
 10%|         *
  0%|**********
----+----------
    |0123456789

Given the increased user-CPU costs as
c increases, it looks like c=4 is probably
the sweet spot, at least for now.

Pleasingly, this matches (and explains)
the results of the standard benchmarking
that I have done.

Updates #15756

Change-Id: I82b606c06efd34a5dbd1afdbcf66a605905b2aeb
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/41192
Run-TryBot: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
2017-04-27 01:08:35 +00:00
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