memory, rather than representing the stubs in IR. Update the CompileOnDemand
layer to use this functionality.
Directly emitting stubs is much cheaper than building them in IR and codegen'ing
them (see below). It also plays well with remote JITing - stubs can be emitted
directly in the target process, rather than having to send them over the wire.
The downsides are:
(1) Care must be taken when resolving symbols, as stub symbols are held in a
separate symbol table. This is only a problem for layer writers and other
people using this API directly. The CompileOnDemand layer hides this detail.
(2) Aliases of function stubs can't be symbolic any more (since there's no
symbol definition in IR), but must be converted into a constant pointer
expression. This means that modules containing aliases of stubs cannot be
cached. In practice this is unlikely to be a problem: There's no benefit to
caching such a module anyway.
On balance I think the extra performance is more than worth the trade-offs: In a
simple stress test with 10000 dummy functions requiring stubs and a single
executed "hello world" main function, directly emitting stubs reduced user time
for JITing / executing by over 90% (1.5s for IR stubs vs 0.1s for direct
emission).
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