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Austin Clements 9c8809f82a runtime/internal/sys: implement Ctz and Bswap in assembly for 386
Ctz is a hot-spot in the Go 1.7 memory manager. In SSA it's
implemented as an intrinsic that compiles to a few instructions, but
on the old backend (all architectures other than amd64), it's
implemented as a fairly complex Go function. As a result, switching to
bitmap-based allocation was a significant hit to allocation-heavy
workloads like BinaryTree17 on non-SSA platforms.

For unknown reasons, this hit 386 particularly hard. We can regain a
lot of the lost performance by implementing Ctz in assembly on the
386. This isn't as good as an intrinsic, since it still generates a
function call and prevents useful inlining, but it's much better than
the pure Go implementation:

name                      old time/op    new time/op    delta
BinaryTree17-12              3.59s ± 1%     3.06s ± 1%  -14.74%  (p=0.000 n=19+20)
Fannkuch11-12                3.72s ± 1%     3.64s ± 1%   -2.09%  (p=0.000 n=17+19)
FmtFprintfEmpty-12          52.3ns ± 3%    52.3ns ± 3%     ~     (p=0.829 n=20+19)
FmtFprintfString-12          156ns ± 1%     148ns ± 3%   -5.20%  (p=0.000 n=18+19)
FmtFprintfInt-12             137ns ± 1%     136ns ± 1%   -0.56%  (p=0.000 n=19+13)
FmtFprintfIntInt-12          227ns ± 2%     225ns ± 2%   -0.93%  (p=0.000 n=19+17)
FmtFprintfPrefixedInt-12     210ns ± 1%     208ns ± 1%   -0.91%  (p=0.000 n=19+17)
FmtFprintfFloat-12           375ns ± 1%     371ns ± 1%   -1.06%  (p=0.000 n=19+18)
FmtManyArgs-12               995ns ± 2%     978ns ± 1%   -1.63%  (p=0.000 n=17+17)
GobDecode-12                9.33ms ± 1%    9.19ms ± 0%   -1.59%  (p=0.000 n=20+17)
GobEncode-12                7.73ms ± 1%    7.73ms ± 1%     ~     (p=0.771 n=19+20)
Gzip-12                      375ms ± 1%     374ms ± 1%     ~     (p=0.141 n=20+18)
Gunzip-12                   61.8ms ± 1%    61.8ms ± 1%     ~     (p=0.602 n=20+20)
HTTPClientServer-12         87.7µs ± 2%    86.9µs ± 3%   -0.87%  (p=0.024 n=19+20)
JSONEncode-12               20.2ms ± 1%    20.4ms ± 0%   +0.53%  (p=0.000 n=18+19)
JSONDecode-12               65.3ms ± 0%    65.4ms ± 1%     ~     (p=0.385 n=16+19)
Mandelbrot200-12            4.11ms ± 1%    4.12ms ± 0%   +0.29%  (p=0.020 n=19+19)
GoParse-12                  3.75ms ± 1%    3.61ms ± 2%   -3.90%  (p=0.000 n=20+20)
RegexpMatchEasy0_32-12       104ns ± 0%     103ns ± 0%   -0.96%  (p=0.000 n=13+16)
RegexpMatchEasy0_1K-12       805ns ± 1%     803ns ± 1%     ~     (p=0.189 n=18+18)
RegexpMatchEasy1_32-12       111ns ± 0%     111ns ± 3%     ~     (p=1.000 n=14+19)
RegexpMatchEasy1_1K-12      1.00µs ± 1%    1.00µs ± 1%   +0.50%  (p=0.003 n=19+19)
RegexpMatchMedium_32-12      133ns ± 2%     133ns ± 2%     ~     (p=0.218 n=20+20)
RegexpMatchMedium_1K-12     41.2µs ± 1%    42.2µs ± 1%   +2.52%  (p=0.000 n=18+16)
RegexpMatchHard_32-12       2.35µs ± 1%    2.38µs ± 1%   +1.53%  (p=0.000 n=18+18)
RegexpMatchHard_1K-12       70.9µs ± 2%    72.0µs ± 1%   +1.42%  (p=0.000 n=19+17)
Revcomp-12                   1.06s ± 0%     1.05s ± 0%   -1.36%  (p=0.000 n=20+18)
Template-12                 86.2ms ± 1%    84.6ms ± 0%   -1.89%  (p=0.000 n=20+18)
TimeParse-12                 425ns ± 2%     428ns ± 1%   +0.77%  (p=0.000 n=18+19)
TimeFormat-12                517ns ± 1%     519ns ± 1%   +0.43%  (p=0.001 n=20+19)
[Geo mean]                  74.3µs         73.5µs        -1.05%

Prior to this commit, BinaryTree17-12 on 386 was 33% slower than at
the go1.6 tag. With this commit, it's 13% slower.

On arm and arm64, BinaryTree17-12 is only ~5% slower than it was at
go1.6. It may be worth implementing Ctz for them as well.

I consider this change low risk, since the functions it replaces are
simple, very well specified, and well tested.

For #16117.

Change-Id: Ic39d851d5aca91330134596effd2dab9689ba066
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/24640
Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Austin Clements <austin@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
2016-06-30 19:35:44 +00:00
.github doc: update issue template 2016-03-09 00:52:16 +00:00
api unicode: upgrade to version 9.0.0 2016-06-28 15:08:11 +00:00
doc doc: update 1.7 release notes on Unicode upgrade 2016-06-28 17:01:30 +00:00
lib/time all: make copyright headers consistent with one space after period 2016-05-02 13:43:18 +00:00
misc cmd/cgo: error, not panic, if not enough arguments to function 2016-06-21 04:32:04 +00:00
src runtime/internal/sys: implement Ctz and Bswap in assembly for 386 2016-06-30 19:35:44 +00:00
test cmd/vet: make checking example names in _test packages more robust 2016-06-28 22:09:00 +00:00
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