rust/compiler/rustc_driver
Nicholas Nethercote 416399dc10 Make Decodable and Decoder infallible.
`Decoder` has two impls:
- opaque: this impl is already partly infallible, i.e. in some places it
  currently panics on failure (e.g. if the input is too short, or on a
  bad `Result` discriminant), and in some places it returns an error
  (e.g. on a bad `Option` discriminant). The number of places where
  either happens is surprisingly small, just because the binary
  representation has very little redundancy and a lot of input reading
  can occur even on malformed data.
- json: this impl is fully fallible, but it's only used (a) for the
  `.rlink` file production, and there's a `FIXME` comment suggesting it
  should change to a binary format, and (b) in a few tests in
  non-fundamental ways. Indeed #85993 is open to remove it entirely.

And the top-level places in the compiler that call into decoding just
abort on error anyway. So the fallibility is providing little value, and
getting rid of it leads to some non-trivial performance improvements.

Much of this commit is pretty boring and mechanical. Some notes about
a few interesting parts:
- The commit removes `Decoder::{Error,error}`.
- `InternIteratorElement::intern_with`: the impl for `T` now has the same
  optimization for small counts that the impl for `Result<T, E>` has,
  because it's now much hotter.
- Decodable impls for SmallVec, LinkedList, VecDeque now all use
  `collect`, which is nice; the one for `Vec` uses unsafe code, because
  that gave better perf on some benchmarks.
2022-01-22 10:38:31 +11:00
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src Make Decodable and Decoder infallible. 2022-01-22 10:38:31 +11:00
Cargo.toml Extract init_env_logger to crate 2022-01-03 16:45:21 -08:00
README.md mv compiler to compiler/ 2020-08-30 18:45:07 +03:00

The driver crate is effectively the "main" function for the rust compiler. It orchestrates the compilation process and "knits together" the code from the other crates within rustc. This crate itself does not contain any of the "main logic" of the compiler (though it does have some code related to pretty printing or other minor compiler options).

For more information about how the driver works, see the rustc dev guide.