Revision a121721f975fc4105ed24ebd0ad1020d08d07a38 authored by Shuhei Kadowaki on 01 November 2021, 10:49:07 UTC, committed by GitHub on 01 November 2021, 10:49:07 UTC
* inference: form `PartialStruct` for extra type information propagation

This commit forms `PartialStruct` whenever there is any type-level
refinement available about a field, even if it's not "constant" information.

In Julia "definitions" are allowed to be abstract whereas "usages"
(i.e. callsites) are often concrete. The basic idea is to allow inference
to make more use of such precise callsite type information by encoding it
as `PartialStruct`.

This may increase optimization possibilities of "unidiomatic" Julia code,
which may contain poorly-typed definitions, like this very contrived example:
```julia
struct Problem
    n; s; c; t
end

function main(args...)
    prob = Problem(args...)
    s = 0
    for i in 1:prob.n
        m = mod(i, 3)
        s += m == 0 ? sin(prob.s) : m == 1 ? cos(prob.c) : tan(prob.t)
    end
    return prob, s
end

main(10000, 1, 2, 3)
```

One of the obvious limitation is that this extra type information can be
propagated inter-procedurally only as a const-propagation.
I'm not sure this kind of "just a type-level" refinement can often make
constant-prop' successful (i.e. shape-up a method body and allow it to
be inlined, encoding the extra type information into the generated code),
thus I didn't not modify any part of const-prop' heuristics.

So the improvements from this change might not be very useful for general
inter-procedural analysis currently, but they should definitely improve the
accuracy of local analysis and very simple inter-procedural analysis.
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opaque_closure.jl
# This file is a part of Julia. License is MIT: https://julialang.org/license

"""
    @opaque (args...) -> body

Marks a given closure as "opaque". Opaque closures capture the
world age of their creation (as opposed to their invocation).
This allows for more aggressive optimization of the capture
list, but trades off against the ability to inline opaque
closures at the call site, if their creation is not statically
visible.

!!! warning
    This interface is experimental and subject to change or removal without notice.
"""
macro opaque(ex)
    esc(Expr(:opaque_closure, ex))
end
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