(Big performance change) Do not run lints that cannot emit
Before this change, adding a lint was a difficult matter because it always had some overhead involved. This was because all lints would run, no matter their default level, or if the user had `#![allow]`ed them. This PR changes that. This change would improve both the Rust lint infrastructure and Clippy, but Clippy will see the most benefit, as it has about 900 registered lints (and growing!)
So yeah, with this little patch we filter all lints pre-linting, and remove any lint that is either:
- Manually `#![allow]`ed in the whole crate,
- Allowed in the command line, or
- Not manually enabled with `#[warn]` or similar, and its default level is `Allow`
As some lints **need** to run, this PR also adds **loadbearing lints**. On a lint declaration, you can use the ``@eval_always` = true` marker to label it as loadbearing. A loadbearing lint will never be filtered (it will always run)
Fixes#106983
Before this change, adding a lint was a difficult matter
because it always had some overhead involved. This was
because all lints would run, no matter their default level,
or if the user had #![allow]ed them. This PR changes that
I removed these in #105291, and subsequently learned they are necessary
for performance.
This commit reinstates them with the new and more descriptive names
`RuntimeCombined{Early,Late}LintPass`, similar to the existing passes
like `BuiltinCombinedEarlyLintPass`. It also adds some comments,
particularly emphasising how we have ways to combine passes at both
compile-time and runtime. And it moves some comments around.
The lint definitions use macros heavily. This commit merges some of them
that are split unnecessarily. I find the reduced indirection makes it
easier to imagine what the generated code will look like.
StructField -> FieldDef ("field definition")
Field -> ExprField ("expression field", not "field expression")
FieldPat -> PatField ("pattern field", not "field pattern")
Also rename visiting and other methods working on them.
Crate root is sufficiently different from `mod` items, at least at syntactic level.
Also remove customization point for "`mod` item or crate root" from AST visitors.
