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 was made possible by the removal of plugin support, which
simplified lint store creation.
This simplifies the places in rustc and rustdoc that call
`describe_lints`, which are early on. The lint store is now built before
those places, so they don't have to create their own lint store for
temporary use, they can just use the main one.
This is apparently where it's busting stack, and the comments for `ensure_sufficient_stack` say that
> E.g. almost any call to visit_expr or equivalent can benefit from this.
This commit partly undoes #104863, which combined the builtin lints pass
with other lints. This caused a slowdown, because often there are no
other lints, and it's faster to do a pass with a single lint directly
than it is to do a combined pass with a `passes` vector containing a
single lint.
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.
`EarlyContextAndPass` wraps a single early lint pass. We aggregate
multiple passes into that single pass by using `EarlyLintPassObjects`.
This commit removes `EarlyLintPassObjects` by changing
`EarlyContextAndPass` into `EarlyContextAndPasses`. I.e. it just removes
a level of indirection. This makes the code simpler and slightly faster.
The commit does likewise for late lints.
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.
The compiler currently has `-Ztime` and `-Ztime-passes`. I've used
`-Ztime-passes` for years but only recently learned about `-Ztime`.
What's the difference? Let's look at the `-Zhelp` output:
```
-Z time=val -- measure time of rustc processes (default: no)
-Z time-passes=val -- measure time of each rustc pass (default: no)
```
The `-Ztime-passes` description is clear, but the `-Ztime` one is less so.
Sounds like it measures the time for the entire process?
No. The real difference is that `-Ztime-passes` prints out info about passes,
and `-Ztime` does the same, but only for a subset of those passes. More
specifically, there is a distinction in the profiling code between a "verbose
generic activity" and an "extra verbose generic activity". `-Ztime-passes`
prints both kinds, while `-Ztime` only prints the first one. (It took me
a close reading of the source code to determine this difference.)
In practice this distinction has low value. Perhaps in the past the "extra
verbose" output was more voluminous, but now that we only print stats for a
pass if it exceeds 5ms or alters the RSS, `-Ztime-passes` is less spammy. Also,
a lot of the "extra verbose" cases are for individual lint passes, and you need
to also use `-Zno-interleave-lints` to see those anyway.
Therefore, this commit removes `-Ztime` and the associated machinery. One thing
to note is that the existing "extra verbose" activities all have an extra
string argument, so the commit adds the ability to accept an extra argument to
the "verbose" activities.
