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    [wasm][debug] Delta-encode the debug side table · 392a0251
    Clemens Backes authored
    For functions with a very large stack, the debug side table repeats a
    lot of information: Most values will be spilled to the stack, still
    every single entry in the debug side table repeats information about
    them (type, stack offset). This leads to the size of the debug side
    table to be quadratic in the size of the function.
    
    In the linked bug, the generation of the debug side table took ~400ms,
    whereas Liftoff compilation alone just took 16ms.
    
    This CL optimized the debug side table by delta-encoding the entries,
    i.e. only storing stack slots that changed. This reduces the size of the
    table significantly, at the cost of making lookup slower, since that now
    has to search the table backwards for the last entry that had
    information about a specific slot. For now, this seems like a good
    compromise. If it turns out to be a problem, we could speed up the
    lookup by either forcing a full dump of the stack state after N entries,
    or by dynamically inserting new entries during lookup, whenever we find
    that we had to search backwards more than N entries. That would speed up
    subsequent lookups then.
    
    On the reproducer in the linked bug, this change reduces the time to
    generate the debug side table from ~400ms to ~120ms.
    Before this CL, the debug side table has 13,314 entries with a total of
    38,599,606 stack value entries. After this CL, it shrinks to 20,037
    stack value entries in the 13,314 entries (average of ~1.5 instead of
    ~2,899).
    
    R=thibaudm@chromium.org
    
    Bug: chromium:1172299
    Change-Id: Ie726bb82d4c6648cc9ebd130115ee7ab3d1d551b
    Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/v8/v8/+/2676636Reviewed-by: 's avatarThibaud Michaud <thibaudm@chromium.org>
    Commit-Queue: Clemens Backes <clemensb@chromium.org>
    Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#72558}
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