mozilla/rust — pull request #8420 by blake2-ppc (2013-08-09 19:37:31+00:00)
Title: syntax: Shrink enum Token and enum nonterminal

`enum Token` was 192 bytes (64-bit), as pointed out by pnkfelix; the only
bloating variant being `INTERPOLATED(nonterminal)`.

Updating `enum nonterminal` to use ~ where variants included big types,
shrunk size_of(Token) to 32 bytes (64-bit).

I am unsure if the `nt_ident` variant should have an indirection, with
ast::ident being only 16 bytes (64-bit), but without this, enum Token
would be 40 bytes.

A dumb benchmark says that compilation time is unchanged, while peak
memory usage for compiling std.rs is down 3%

Before::

$ time ./x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/bin/rustc --cfg stage1 src/libstd/std.rs
19.00user 0.39system 0:19.41elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 627820maxresident)k
0inputs+28896outputs (0major+228665minor)pagefaults 0swaps
$ time ./x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/bin/rustc -O --cfg stage1 src/libstd/std.rs
31.64user 0.34system 0:32.02elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 629876maxresident)k
0inputs+22432outputs (0major+229411minor)pagefaults 0swaps

After::

$ time ./x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/bin/rustc --cfg stage1 src/libstd/std.rs
19.07user 0.45system 0:19.55elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 609384maxresident)k
0inputs+28896outputs (0major+221997minor)pagefaults 0swaps

$ time ./x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/stage1/bin/rustc -O --cfg stage1 src/libstd/std.rs
31.90user 0.34system 0:32.28elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 612080maxresident)k
0inputs+22432outputs (0major+223726minor)pagefaults 0swaps