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@nicolasstucki nicolasstucki commented Nov 17, 2017

When bootstrapping dotty, this reduces the allocated FlagSets from 2.7M to 400K.

def union(flagss: FlagSet*) = (EmptyFlags /: flagss)(_ | _)
def union(flagss: FlagSet*): FlagSet = {
var flag = EmptyFlags
for (f <- flagss)
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If you want to go deep in micro-optimizations, you could use a while loop

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Should avoid FlagSet* altogether.

@@ -172,12 +172,24 @@ object Flags {
}

/** The union of all flags in given flag set */
def union(flagss: FlagSet*) = (EmptyFlags /: flagss)(_ | _)
def union(flagss: FlagSet*): FlagSet = {
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This is still going to box, isn't it? FlagSet* becomes Seq[FlagSet], value classes in generic positions are always boxed.

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We avoid reboxing in the fold, half of the boxes are gone.

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test performance please

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I do not believe the performance should change much

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performance test scheduled: 1 job(s) in queue, 0 running.

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Performance test finished successfully:

Visit http://dotty-bench.epfl.ch/3497/ to see the changes.

Benchmarks is based on merging with master (b95e71a)

@allanrenucci allanrenucci merged commit e675e6b into scala:master Nov 20, 2017
@allanrenucci allanrenucci deleted the some-micro-opts branch December 14, 2017 19:24
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