rust-lang/rust — pull request #19574 by erickt (2014-12-05 19:32:14+00:00)
Title: collections: dramatically speed up Vec::reserve with magic

(I don't understand why this works, and so I don't quite trust this yet. I'm pushing it up to see if anyone else can replicate this performance increase)

Somehow llvm is able to optimize this version of Vec::reserve into dramatically faster than the old version. In micro-benchmarks this was 2-10 times faster. It also reduce my Rust compile time from 41 minutes to 27 minutes.

Closes #19281.