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Make ASCII case conversions more than 4× faster - #59283
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rust-highfive
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Mar 18, 2019
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This looks good to me, modulo the tidy warnings.
I like that the explanation is so much longer than the code :)
joshtriplett
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Mar 18, 2019
Looks good to me. r=me as soon as CI passes. |
ollie27
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Mar 18, 2019
Might this be slower for platforms without SIMD which can't take advantage of auto-vectorization or does that not matter? |
raphlinus
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Mar 18, 2019
It's probably still faster than the status quo on those platforms because it does the computation without branches. If one cared deeply about those platforms, then the pseudo-SIMD approach could be resurrected. However, I think this is a pretty good compromise. |
SimonSapin
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Mar 18, 2019
I guess it depends on whether LLVM can auto-vectorize based on "classic" I also just realize that when doing one byte at a time, instead of convoluted add-then-mask to emulate comparison, we can use actual comparison to obtain a byte &= !(0x20*(b'a' <= byte && byte <= b'z')asu8)This even turns out to be slightly faster! I’ll update the PR. |
SimonSapin
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Mar 18, 2019
If instead of Benchmark results in GIF for "visual diff": Benchmark results in textBefore: test ascii::long::is_ascii ... bench:187 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 37379MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_alphabetic ... bench:94 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 74361MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_alphanumeric ... bench:125 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 55920MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_control ... bench:124 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 56370MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_digit ... bench:125 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 55920MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_graphic ... bench:124 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 56370MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_hexdigit ... bench:124 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 56370MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_lowercase ... bench:124 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 56370MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_punctuation ... bench:124 ns/iter(+/- 1) = 56370MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_uppercase ... bench:124 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 56370MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_whitespace ... bench:124 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 56370MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii ... bench:28 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1142MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_alphabetic ... bench:24 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1333MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_alphanumeric ... bench:24 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1333MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_control ... bench:23 ns/iter(+/- 1) = 1391MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_digit ... bench:22 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1454MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_graphic ... bench:24 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1333MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_hexdigit ... bench:23 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1391MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_lowercase ... bench:22 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1454MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_punctuation ... bench:22 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1454MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_uppercase ... bench:22 ns/iter(+/- 2) = 1454MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_whitespace ... bench:22 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1454MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii ... bench:23 ns/iter(+/- 1) = 304MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_alphabetic ... bench:24 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 291MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_alphanumeric ... bench:24 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 291MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_control ... bench:22 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 318MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_digit ... bench:22 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 318MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_graphic ... bench:25 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 280MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_hexdigit ... bench:24 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 291MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_lowercase ... bench:23 ns/iter(+/- 1) = 304MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_punctuation ... bench:22 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 318MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_uppercase ... bench:24 ns/iter(+/- 1) = 291MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_whitespace ... bench:22 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 318MB/sAfter: test ascii::long::is_ascii ... bench:186 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 37580MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_alphabetic ... bench:96 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 72812MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_alphanumeric ... bench:119 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 58739MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_control ... bench:124 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 56370MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_digit ... bench:124 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 56370MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_graphic ... bench:124 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 56370MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_hexdigit ... bench:124 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 56370MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_lowercase ... bench:124 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 56370MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_punctuation ... bench:124 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 56370MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_uppercase ... bench:124 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 56370MB/s
test ascii::long::is_ascii_whitespace ... bench:134 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 52164MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii ... bench:28 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1142MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_alphabetic ... bench:23 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1391MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_alphanumeric ... bench:23 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1391MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_control ... bench:20 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1600MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_digit ... bench:20 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1600MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_graphic ... bench:22 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1454MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_hexdigit ... bench:22 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1454MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_lowercase ... bench:20 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1600MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_punctuation ... bench:22 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1454MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_uppercase ... bench:21 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1523MB/s
test ascii::medium::is_ascii_whitespace ... bench:20 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1600MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii ... bench:23 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 304MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_alphabetic ... bench:23 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 304MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_alphanumeric ... bench:23 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 304MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_control ... bench:20 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 350MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_digit ... bench:20 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 350MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_graphic ... bench:23 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 304MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_hexdigit ... bench:22 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 318MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_lowercase ... bench:20 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 350MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_punctuation ... bench:22 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 318MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_uppercase ... bench:21 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 333MB/s
test ascii::short::is_ascii_whitespace ... bench:20 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 350MB/s |
SimonSapin
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Mar 19, 2019
Benchmark results from the original PR description, in case they end up being relevant: Details6830 bytes string:
alloc_only ... bench:109 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 62660MB/s
black_box_read_each_byte ... bench:1,708 ns/iter(+/- 5) = 3998MB/s
lookup ... bench:1,725 ns/iter(+/- 2) = 3959MB/s
branch_and_subtract ... bench:413 ns/iter(+/- 1) = 16537MB/s
branch_and_mask ... bench:411 ns/iter(+/- 2) = 16618MB/s
branchless ... bench:377 ns/iter(+/- 2) = 18116MB/s
libcore ... bench:378 ns/iter(+/- 2) = 18068MB/s
fake_simd_u32 ... bench:373 ns/iter(+/- 1) = 18310MB/s
fake_simd_u64 ... bench:374 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 18262MB/s
32 bytes string:
alloc_only ... bench:13 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 2461MB/s
black_box_read_each_byte ... bench:28 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1142MB/s
lookup ... bench:25 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1280MB/s
branch_and_subtract ... bench:16 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 2000MB/s
branch_and_mask ... bench:16 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 2000MB/s
branchless ... bench:15 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 2133MB/s
libcore ... bench:16 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 2000MB/s
fake_simd_u32 ... bench:17 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1882MB/s
fake_simd_u64 ... bench:17 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 1882MB/s
7 bytes string:
alloc_only ... bench:13 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 538MB/s
black_box_read_each_byte ... bench:22 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 318MB/s
lookup ... bench:17 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 411MB/s
branch_and_subtract ... bench:16 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 437MB/s
branch_and_mask ... bench:17 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 411MB/s
branchless ... bench:21 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 333MB/s
libcore ... bench:21 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 333MB/s
fake_simd_u32 ... bench:20 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 350MB/s
fake_simd_u64 ... bench:23 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 304MB/s |
| pub fn to_ascii_uppercase(&self) -> u8 { | ||
| ASCII_UPPERCASE_MAP[*self as usize] | ||
| // Unset the fith bit if this is a lowercase letter | ||
| *self & !((self.is_ascii_lowercase() as u8) << 5) |
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| *self& !((self.is_ascii_lowercase()asu8) << 5) | |
| *self- ((self.is_ascii_lowercase()asu8) << 5) |
Using subtract is slightly faster for me:
test long::case12_mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench: 776 ns/iter (+/- 26) = 9007 MB/s
test long::case13_sub_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench: 734 ns/iter (+/- 49) = 9523 MB/s
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This is also an improvement for me, but smaller:
test ascii::long::case12_mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench:352 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 19857MB/s
test ascii::long::case13_subtract_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench:350 ns/iter(+/- 1) = 19971MB/s
test ascii::medium::case12_mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench:15 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 2133MB/s
test ascii::medium::case13_subtract_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench:15 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 2133MB/s
test ascii::short::case12_mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench:19 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 368MB/s
test ascii::short::case13_subtract_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench:18 ns/iter(+/- 0) = 388MB/sollie27
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Mar 19, 2019
A quick benchmark using DetailsWhich shows that this can be slower than the lookup for a target without SIMD. |
SimonSapin
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Mar 19, 2019
What commit were these i586 results on? Because the |
ollie27
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Mar 19, 2019
I was just a recent nightly so that's why |
SimonSapin
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Mar 22, 2019
@joshtriplett I pushed several changes since your review, could you have another look? |
joshtriplett
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Mar 26, 2019
@bors r+ |
bors
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Mar 26, 2019
📌 Commit 7fad370 has been approved by |
…=joshtriplett Make ASCII case conversions more than 4× faster Reformatted output of `./x.py bench src/libcore --test-args ascii` below. The `libcore` benchmark calls `[u8]::make_ascii_lowercase`. `lookup` has code (effectively) identical to that before this PR, and ~~`branchless`~~ `mask_shifted_bool_match_range` after this PR. ~~See [code comments](rust-lang@ce933f7#diff-01076f91a26400b2db49663d787c2576R3796) in `u8::to_ascii_uppercase` in `src/libcore/num/mod.rs` for an explanation of the branchless algorithm.~~ **Update:** the algorithm was simplified while keeping the performance. See `branchless` v.s. `mask_shifted_bool_match_range` benchmarks. Credits to @raphlinus for the idea in https://twitter.com/raphlinus/status/1107654782544736261, which extends this algorithm to “fake SIMD” on `u32` to convert four bytes at a time. The `fake_simd_u32` benchmarks implements this with [`let (before, aligned, after) = bytes.align_to_mut::<u32>()`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.align_to_mut). Note however that this is buggy when addition carries/overflows into the next byte (which does not happen if the input is known to be ASCII). This could be fixed (to optimize `[u8]::make_ascii_lowercase` and `[u8]::make_ascii_uppercase` in `src/libcore/slice/mod.rs`) either with some more bitwise trickery that I didn’t quite figure out, or by using “real” SIMD intrinsics for byte-wise addition. I did not pursue this however because the current (incorrect) fake SIMD algorithm is only marginally faster than the one-byte-at-a-time branchless algorithm. This is because LLVM auto-vectorizes the latter, as can be seen on https://rust.godbolt.org/z/anKtbR. Benchmark results on Linux x64 with Intel i7-7700K: (updated from rust-lang#59283 (comment)) ```rust 6830 bytes string: alloc_only ... bench: 112 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 62410 MB/s black_box_read_each_byte ... bench: 1,733 ns/iter (+/- 8) = 4033 MB/s lookup_table ... bench: 1,766 ns/iter (+/- 11) = 3958 MB/s branch_and_subtract ... bench: 417 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 16762 MB/s branch_and_mask ... bench: 401 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 17431 MB/s branchless ... bench: 365 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 19150 MB/s libcore ... bench: 367 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 19046 MB/s fake_simd_u32 ... bench: 361 ns/iter (+/- 2) = 19362 MB/s fake_simd_u64 ... bench: 361 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 19362 MB/s mask_mult_bool_branchy_lookup_table ... bench: 6,309 ns/iter (+/- 19) = 1107 MB/s mask_mult_bool_lookup_table ... bench: 4,183 ns/iter (+/- 29) = 1671 MB/s mask_mult_bool_match_range ... bench: 339 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 20619 MB/s mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench: 339 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 20619 MB/s 32 bytes string: alloc_only ... bench: 15 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2133 MB/s black_box_read_each_byte ... bench: 29 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 1103 MB/s lookup_table ... bench: 24 ns/iter (+/- 4) = 1333 MB/s branch_and_subtract ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s branch_and_mask ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s branchless ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s libcore ... bench: 15 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2133 MB/s fake_simd_u32 ... bench: 17 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 1882 MB/s fake_simd_u64 ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s mask_mult_bool_branchy_lookup_table ... bench: 42 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 761 MB/s mask_mult_bool_lookup_table ... bench: 35 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 914 MB/s mask_mult_bool_match_range ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s 7 bytes string: alloc_only ... bench: 14 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 500 MB/s black_box_read_each_byte ... bench: 22 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 318 MB/s lookup_table ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 437 MB/s branch_and_subtract ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 437 MB/s branch_and_mask ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 437 MB/s branchless ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s libcore ... bench: 20 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 350 MB/s fake_simd_u32 ... bench: 18 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 388 MB/s fake_simd_u64 ... bench: 21 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 333 MB/s mask_mult_bool_branchy_lookup_table ... bench: 20 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 350 MB/s mask_mult_bool_lookup_table ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s mask_mult_bool_match_range ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s ```
…=joshtriplett Make ASCII case conversions more than 4× faster Reformatted output of `./x.py bench src/libcore --test-args ascii` below. The `libcore` benchmark calls `[u8]::make_ascii_lowercase`. `lookup` has code (effectively) identical to that before this PR, and ~~`branchless`~~ `mask_shifted_bool_match_range` after this PR. ~~See [code comments](rust-lang@ce933f7#diff-01076f91a26400b2db49663d787c2576R3796) in `u8::to_ascii_uppercase` in `src/libcore/num/mod.rs` for an explanation of the branchless algorithm.~~ **Update:** the algorithm was simplified while keeping the performance. See `branchless` v.s. `mask_shifted_bool_match_range` benchmarks. Credits to @raphlinus for the idea in https://twitter.com/raphlinus/status/1107654782544736261, which extends this algorithm to “fake SIMD” on `u32` to convert four bytes at a time. The `fake_simd_u32` benchmarks implements this with [`let (before, aligned, after) = bytes.align_to_mut::<u32>()`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.align_to_mut). Note however that this is buggy when addition carries/overflows into the next byte (which does not happen if the input is known to be ASCII). This could be fixed (to optimize `[u8]::make_ascii_lowercase` and `[u8]::make_ascii_uppercase` in `src/libcore/slice/mod.rs`) either with some more bitwise trickery that I didn’t quite figure out, or by using “real” SIMD intrinsics for byte-wise addition. I did not pursue this however because the current (incorrect) fake SIMD algorithm is only marginally faster than the one-byte-at-a-time branchless algorithm. This is because LLVM auto-vectorizes the latter, as can be seen on https://rust.godbolt.org/z/anKtbR. Benchmark results on Linux x64 with Intel i7-7700K: (updated from rust-lang#59283 (comment)) ```rust 6830 bytes string: alloc_only ... bench: 112 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 62410 MB/s black_box_read_each_byte ... bench: 1,733 ns/iter (+/- 8) = 4033 MB/s lookup_table ... bench: 1,766 ns/iter (+/- 11) = 3958 MB/s branch_and_subtract ... bench: 417 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 16762 MB/s branch_and_mask ... bench: 401 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 17431 MB/s branchless ... bench: 365 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 19150 MB/s libcore ... bench: 367 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 19046 MB/s fake_simd_u32 ... bench: 361 ns/iter (+/- 2) = 19362 MB/s fake_simd_u64 ... bench: 361 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 19362 MB/s mask_mult_bool_branchy_lookup_table ... bench: 6,309 ns/iter (+/- 19) = 1107 MB/s mask_mult_bool_lookup_table ... bench: 4,183 ns/iter (+/- 29) = 1671 MB/s mask_mult_bool_match_range ... bench: 339 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 20619 MB/s mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench: 339 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 20619 MB/s 32 bytes string: alloc_only ... bench: 15 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2133 MB/s black_box_read_each_byte ... bench: 29 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 1103 MB/s lookup_table ... bench: 24 ns/iter (+/- 4) = 1333 MB/s branch_and_subtract ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s branch_and_mask ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s branchless ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s libcore ... bench: 15 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2133 MB/s fake_simd_u32 ... bench: 17 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 1882 MB/s fake_simd_u64 ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s mask_mult_bool_branchy_lookup_table ... bench: 42 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 761 MB/s mask_mult_bool_lookup_table ... bench: 35 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 914 MB/s mask_mult_bool_match_range ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s 7 bytes string: alloc_only ... bench: 14 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 500 MB/s black_box_read_each_byte ... bench: 22 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 318 MB/s lookup_table ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 437 MB/s branch_and_subtract ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 437 MB/s branch_and_mask ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 437 MB/s branchless ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s libcore ... bench: 20 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 350 MB/s fake_simd_u32 ... bench: 18 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 388 MB/s fake_simd_u64 ... bench: 21 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 333 MB/s mask_mult_bool_branchy_lookup_table ... bench: 20 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 350 MB/s mask_mult_bool_lookup_table ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s mask_mult_bool_match_range ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s ```
…=joshtriplett Make ASCII case conversions more than 4× faster Reformatted output of `./x.py bench src/libcore --test-args ascii` below. The `libcore` benchmark calls `[u8]::make_ascii_lowercase`. `lookup` has code (effectively) identical to that before this PR, and ~~`branchless`~~ `mask_shifted_bool_match_range` after this PR. ~~See [code comments](rust-lang@ce933f7#diff-01076f91a26400b2db49663d787c2576R3796) in `u8::to_ascii_uppercase` in `src/libcore/num/mod.rs` for an explanation of the branchless algorithm.~~ **Update:** the algorithm was simplified while keeping the performance. See `branchless` v.s. `mask_shifted_bool_match_range` benchmarks. Credits to @raphlinus for the idea in https://twitter.com/raphlinus/status/1107654782544736261, which extends this algorithm to “fake SIMD” on `u32` to convert four bytes at a time. The `fake_simd_u32` benchmarks implements this with [`let (before, aligned, after) = bytes.align_to_mut::<u32>()`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.align_to_mut). Note however that this is buggy when addition carries/overflows into the next byte (which does not happen if the input is known to be ASCII). This could be fixed (to optimize `[u8]::make_ascii_lowercase` and `[u8]::make_ascii_uppercase` in `src/libcore/slice/mod.rs`) either with some more bitwise trickery that I didn’t quite figure out, or by using “real” SIMD intrinsics for byte-wise addition. I did not pursue this however because the current (incorrect) fake SIMD algorithm is only marginally faster than the one-byte-at-a-time branchless algorithm. This is because LLVM auto-vectorizes the latter, as can be seen on https://rust.godbolt.org/z/anKtbR. Benchmark results on Linux x64 with Intel i7-7700K: (updated from rust-lang#59283 (comment)) ```rust 6830 bytes string: alloc_only ... bench: 112 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 62410 MB/s black_box_read_each_byte ... bench: 1,733 ns/iter (+/- 8) = 4033 MB/s lookup_table ... bench: 1,766 ns/iter (+/- 11) = 3958 MB/s branch_and_subtract ... bench: 417 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 16762 MB/s branch_and_mask ... bench: 401 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 17431 MB/s branchless ... bench: 365 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 19150 MB/s libcore ... bench: 367 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 19046 MB/s fake_simd_u32 ... bench: 361 ns/iter (+/- 2) = 19362 MB/s fake_simd_u64 ... bench: 361 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 19362 MB/s mask_mult_bool_branchy_lookup_table ... bench: 6,309 ns/iter (+/- 19) = 1107 MB/s mask_mult_bool_lookup_table ... bench: 4,183 ns/iter (+/- 29) = 1671 MB/s mask_mult_bool_match_range ... bench: 339 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 20619 MB/s mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench: 339 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 20619 MB/s 32 bytes string: alloc_only ... bench: 15 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2133 MB/s black_box_read_each_byte ... bench: 29 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 1103 MB/s lookup_table ... bench: 24 ns/iter (+/- 4) = 1333 MB/s branch_and_subtract ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s branch_and_mask ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s branchless ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s libcore ... bench: 15 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2133 MB/s fake_simd_u32 ... bench: 17 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 1882 MB/s fake_simd_u64 ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s mask_mult_bool_branchy_lookup_table ... bench: 42 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 761 MB/s mask_mult_bool_lookup_table ... bench: 35 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 914 MB/s mask_mult_bool_match_range ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s 7 bytes string: alloc_only ... bench: 14 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 500 MB/s black_box_read_each_byte ... bench: 22 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 318 MB/s lookup_table ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 437 MB/s branch_and_subtract ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 437 MB/s branch_and_mask ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 437 MB/s branchless ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s libcore ... bench: 20 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 350 MB/s fake_simd_u32 ... bench: 18 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 388 MB/s fake_simd_u64 ... bench: 21 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 333 MB/s mask_mult_bool_branchy_lookup_table ... bench: 20 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 350 MB/s mask_mult_bool_lookup_table ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s mask_mult_bool_match_range ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s ```
…=joshtriplett Make ASCII case conversions more than 4× faster Reformatted output of `./x.py bench src/libcore --test-args ascii` below. The `libcore` benchmark calls `[u8]::make_ascii_lowercase`. `lookup` has code (effectively) identical to that before this PR, and ~~`branchless`~~ `mask_shifted_bool_match_range` after this PR. ~~See [code comments](rust-lang@ce933f7#diff-01076f91a26400b2db49663d787c2576R3796) in `u8::to_ascii_uppercase` in `src/libcore/num/mod.rs` for an explanation of the branchless algorithm.~~ **Update:** the algorithm was simplified while keeping the performance. See `branchless` v.s. `mask_shifted_bool_match_range` benchmarks. Credits to @raphlinus for the idea in https://twitter.com/raphlinus/status/1107654782544736261, which extends this algorithm to “fake SIMD” on `u32` to convert four bytes at a time. The `fake_simd_u32` benchmarks implements this with [`let (before, aligned, after) = bytes.align_to_mut::<u32>()`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.align_to_mut). Note however that this is buggy when addition carries/overflows into the next byte (which does not happen if the input is known to be ASCII). This could be fixed (to optimize `[u8]::make_ascii_lowercase` and `[u8]::make_ascii_uppercase` in `src/libcore/slice/mod.rs`) either with some more bitwise trickery that I didn’t quite figure out, or by using “real” SIMD intrinsics for byte-wise addition. I did not pursue this however because the current (incorrect) fake SIMD algorithm is only marginally faster than the one-byte-at-a-time branchless algorithm. This is because LLVM auto-vectorizes the latter, as can be seen on https://rust.godbolt.org/z/anKtbR. Benchmark results on Linux x64 with Intel i7-7700K: (updated from rust-lang#59283 (comment)) ```rust 6830 bytes string: alloc_only ... bench: 112 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 62410 MB/s black_box_read_each_byte ... bench: 1,733 ns/iter (+/- 8) = 4033 MB/s lookup_table ... bench: 1,766 ns/iter (+/- 11) = 3958 MB/s branch_and_subtract ... bench: 417 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 16762 MB/s branch_and_mask ... bench: 401 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 17431 MB/s branchless ... bench: 365 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 19150 MB/s libcore ... bench: 367 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 19046 MB/s fake_simd_u32 ... bench: 361 ns/iter (+/- 2) = 19362 MB/s fake_simd_u64 ... bench: 361 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 19362 MB/s mask_mult_bool_branchy_lookup_table ... bench: 6,309 ns/iter (+/- 19) = 1107 MB/s mask_mult_bool_lookup_table ... bench: 4,183 ns/iter (+/- 29) = 1671 MB/s mask_mult_bool_match_range ... bench: 339 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 20619 MB/s mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench: 339 ns/iter (+/- 1) = 20619 MB/s 32 bytes string: alloc_only ... bench: 15 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2133 MB/s black_box_read_each_byte ... bench: 29 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 1103 MB/s lookup_table ... bench: 24 ns/iter (+/- 4) = 1333 MB/s branch_and_subtract ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s branch_and_mask ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s branchless ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s libcore ... bench: 15 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2133 MB/s fake_simd_u32 ... bench: 17 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 1882 MB/s fake_simd_u64 ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s mask_mult_bool_branchy_lookup_table ... bench: 42 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 761 MB/s mask_mult_bool_lookup_table ... bench: 35 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 914 MB/s mask_mult_bool_match_range ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 2000 MB/s 7 bytes string: alloc_only ... bench: 14 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 500 MB/s black_box_read_each_byte ... bench: 22 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 318 MB/s lookup_table ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 437 MB/s branch_and_subtract ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 437 MB/s branch_and_mask ... bench: 16 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 437 MB/s branchless ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s libcore ... bench: 20 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 350 MB/s fake_simd_u32 ... bench: 18 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 388 MB/s fake_simd_u64 ... bench: 21 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 333 MB/s mask_mult_bool_branchy_lookup_table ... bench: 20 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 350 MB/s mask_mult_bool_lookup_table ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s mask_mult_bool_match_range ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s mask_shifted_bool_match_range ... bench: 19 ns/iter (+/- 0) = 368 MB/s ```
Rollup of 18 pull requests Successful merges: - #57293 (Make some lints incremental) - #57565 (syntax: Remove warning for unnecessary path disambiguators) - #58253 (librustc_driver => 2018) - #58837 (librustc_interface => 2018) - #59268 (Add suggestion to use `&*var` when `&str: From<String>` is expected) - #59283 (Make ASCII case conversions more than 4× faster) - #59284 (adjust MaybeUninit API to discussions) - #59372 (add rustfix-able suggestions to trim_{left,right} deprecations) - #59390 (Make `ptr::eq` documentation mention fat-pointer behavior) - #59393 (Refactor tuple comparison tests) - #59420 ([CI] record docker image info for reuse) - #59421 (Reject integer suffix when tuple indexing) - #59430 (Renames `EvalContext` to `InterpretCx`) - #59439 (Generalize diagnostic for `x = y` where `bool` is the expected type) - #59449 (fix: Make incremental artifact deletion more robust) - #59451 (Add `Default` to `std::alloc::System`) - #59459 (Add some tests) - #59460 (Include id in Thread's Debug implementation) Failed merges: r? @ghost
Version 1.35.0 (2019-05-23)
==========================
Language
--------
- [`FnOnce`, `FnMut`, and the `Fn` traits are now implemented for `Box<FnOnce>`,
`Box<FnMut>`, and `Box<Fn>` respectively.][59500]
- [You can now coerce closures into unsafe function pointers.][59580] e.g.
```rust
unsafe fn call_unsafe(func: unsafe fn()) {
func()
}
pub fn main() {
unsafe { call_unsafe(|| {}); }
}
```
Compiler
--------
- [Added the `armv6-unknown-freebsd-gnueabihf` and
`armv7-unknown-freebsd-gnueabihf` targets.][58080]
- [Added the `wasm32-unknown-wasi` target.][59464]
Libraries
---------
- [`Thread` will now show its ID in `Debug` output.][59460]
- [`StdinLock`, `StdoutLock`, and `StderrLock` now implement `AsRawFd`.][59512]
- [`alloc::System` now implements `Default`.][59451]
- [Expanded `Debug` output (`{:#?}`) for structs now has a trailing comma on the
last field.][59076]
- [`char::{ToLowercase, ToUppercase}` now
implement `ExactSizeIterator`.][58778]
- [All `NonZero` numeric types now implement `FromStr`.][58717]
- [Removed the `Read` trait bounds
on the `BufReader::{get_ref, get_mut, into_inner}` methods.][58423]
- [You can now call the `dbg!` macro without any parameters to print the file
and line where it is called.][57847]
- [In place ASCII case conversions are now up to 4× faster.][59283]
e.g. `str::make_ascii_lowercase`
- [`hash_map::{OccupiedEntry, VacantEntry}` now implement `Sync`
and `Send`.][58369]
Stabilized APIs
---------------
- [`f32::copysign`]
- [`f64::copysign`]
- [`RefCell::replace_with`]
- [`RefCell::map_split`]
- [`ptr::hash`]
- [`Range::contains`]
- [`RangeFrom::contains`]
- [`RangeTo::contains`]
- [`RangeInclusive::contains`]
- [`RangeToInclusive::contains`]
- [`Option::copied`]
Cargo
-----
- [You can now set `cargo:rustc-cdylib-link-arg` at build time to pass custom
linker arguments when building a `cdylib`.][cargo/6298] Its usage is highly
platform specific.
Misc
----
- [The Rust toolchain is now available natively for musl based distros.][58575]
[59460]: rust-lang/rust#59460
[59464]: rust-lang/rust#59464
[59500]: rust-lang/rust#59500
[59512]: rust-lang/rust#59512
[59580]: rust-lang/rust#59580
[59283]: rust-lang/rust#59283
[59451]: rust-lang/rust#59451
[59076]: rust-lang/rust#59076
[58778]: rust-lang/rust#58778
[58717]: rust-lang/rust#58717
[58369]: rust-lang/rust#58369
[58423]: rust-lang/rust#58423
[58080]: rust-lang/rust#58080
[57847]: rust-lang/rust#57847
[58575]: rust-lang/rust#58575
[cargo/6298]: rust-lang/cargo#6298
[`f32::copysign`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/primitive.f32.html#method.copysign
[`f64::copysign`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/primitive.f64.html#method.copysign
[`RefCell::replace_with`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/cell/struct.RefCell.html#method.replace_with
[`RefCell::map_split`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/cell/struct.RefCell.html#method.map_split
[`ptr::hash`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/ptr/fn.hash.html
[`Range::contains`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.Range.html#method.contains
[`RangeFrom::contains`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.RangeFrom.html#method.contains
[`RangeTo::contains`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.RangeTo.html#method.contains
[`RangeInclusive::contains`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.RangeInclusive.html#method.contains
[`RangeToInclusive::contains`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.RangeToInclusive.html#method.contains
[`Option::copied`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html#method.copiedVersion 1.35.0 (2019-05-23)
==========================
Language
--------
- [`FnOnce`, `FnMut`, and the `Fn` traits are now implemented for `Box<FnOnce>`,
`Box<FnMut>`, and `Box<Fn>` respectively.][59500]
- [You can now coerce closures into unsafe function pointers.][59580] e.g.
```rust
unsafe fn call_unsafe(func: unsafe fn()) {
func()
}
pub fn main() {
unsafe { call_unsafe(|| {}); }
}
```
Compiler
--------
- [Added the `armv6-unknown-freebsd-gnueabihf` and
`armv7-unknown-freebsd-gnueabihf` targets.][58080]
- [Added the `wasm32-unknown-wasi` target.][59464]
Libraries
---------
- [`Thread` will now show its ID in `Debug` output.][59460]
- [`StdinLock`, `StdoutLock`, and `StderrLock` now implement `AsRawFd`.][59512]
- [`alloc::System` now implements `Default`.][59451]
- [Expanded `Debug` output (`{:#?}`) for structs now has a trailing comma on the
last field.][59076]
- [`char::{ToLowercase, ToUppercase}` now
implement `ExactSizeIterator`.][58778]
- [All `NonZero` numeric types now implement `FromStr`.][58717]
- [Removed the `Read` trait bounds
on the `BufReader::{get_ref, get_mut, into_inner}` methods.][58423]
- [You can now call the `dbg!` macro without any parameters to print the file
and line where it is called.][57847]
- [In place ASCII case conversions are now up to 4× faster.][59283]
e.g. `str::make_ascii_lowercase`
- [`hash_map::{OccupiedEntry, VacantEntry}` now implement `Sync`
and `Send`.][58369]
Stabilized APIs
---------------
- [`f32::copysign`]
- [`f64::copysign`]
- [`RefCell::replace_with`]
- [`RefCell::map_split`]
- [`ptr::hash`]
- [`Range::contains`]
- [`RangeFrom::contains`]
- [`RangeTo::contains`]
- [`RangeInclusive::contains`]
- [`RangeToInclusive::contains`]
- [`Option::copied`]
Cargo
-----
- [You can now set `cargo:rustc-cdylib-link-arg` at build time to pass custom
linker arguments when building a `cdylib`.][cargo/6298] Its usage is highly
platform specific.
Misc
----
- [The Rust toolchain is now available natively for musl based distros.][58575]
[59460]: rust-lang/rust#59460
[59464]: rust-lang/rust#59464
[59500]: rust-lang/rust#59500
[59512]: rust-lang/rust#59512
[59580]: rust-lang/rust#59580
[59283]: rust-lang/rust#59283
[59451]: rust-lang/rust#59451
[59076]: rust-lang/rust#59076
[58778]: rust-lang/rust#58778
[58717]: rust-lang/rust#58717
[58369]: rust-lang/rust#58369
[58423]: rust-lang/rust#58423
[58080]: rust-lang/rust#58080
[57847]: rust-lang/rust#57847
[58575]: rust-lang/rust#58575
[cargo/6298]: rust-lang/cargo#6298
[`f32::copysign`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/primitive.f32.html#method.copysign
[`f64::copysign`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/primitive.f64.html#method.copysign
[`RefCell::replace_with`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/cell/struct.RefCell.html#method.replace_with
[`RefCell::map_split`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/cell/struct.RefCell.html#method.map_split
[`ptr::hash`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/ptr/fn.hash.html
[`Range::contains`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.Range.html#method.contains
[`RangeFrom::contains`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.RangeFrom.html#method.contains
[`RangeTo::contains`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.RangeTo.html#method.contains
[`RangeInclusive::contains`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.RangeInclusive.html#method.contains
[`RangeToInclusive::contains`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.RangeToInclusive.html#method.contains
[`Option::copied`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html#method.copiedVersion 1.35.0 (2019-05-23)
==========================
Language
--------
- [`FnOnce`, `FnMut`, and the `Fn` traits are now implemented for `Box<FnOnce>`,
`Box<FnMut>`, and `Box<Fn>` respectively.][59500]
- [You can now coerce closures into unsafe function pointers.][59580] e.g.
```rust
unsafe fn call_unsafe(func: unsafe fn()) {
func()
}
pub fn main() {
unsafe { call_unsafe(|| {}); }
}
```
Compiler
--------
- [Added the `armv6-unknown-freebsd-gnueabihf` and
`armv7-unknown-freebsd-gnueabihf` targets.][58080]
- [Added the `wasm32-unknown-wasi` target.][59464]
Libraries
---------
- [`Thread` will now show its ID in `Debug` output.][59460]
- [`StdinLock`, `StdoutLock`, and `StderrLock` now implement `AsRawFd`.][59512]
- [`alloc::System` now implements `Default`.][59451]
- [Expanded `Debug` output (`{:#?}`) for structs now has a trailing comma on the
last field.][59076]
- [`char::{ToLowercase, ToUppercase}` now
implement `ExactSizeIterator`.][58778]
- [All `NonZero` numeric types now implement `FromStr`.][58717]
- [Removed the `Read` trait bounds
on the `BufReader::{get_ref, get_mut, into_inner}` methods.][58423]
- [You can now call the `dbg!` macro without any parameters to print the file
and line where it is called.][57847]
- [In place ASCII case conversions are now up to 4× faster.][59283]
e.g. `str::make_ascii_lowercase`
- [`hash_map::{OccupiedEntry, VacantEntry}` now implement `Sync`
and `Send`.][58369]
Stabilized APIs
---------------
- [`f32::copysign`]
- [`f64::copysign`]
- [`RefCell::replace_with`]
- [`RefCell::map_split`]
- [`ptr::hash`]
- [`Range::contains`]
- [`RangeFrom::contains`]
- [`RangeTo::contains`]
- [`RangeInclusive::contains`]
- [`RangeToInclusive::contains`]
- [`Option::copied`]
Cargo
-----
- [You can now set `cargo:rustc-cdylib-link-arg` at build time to pass custom
linker arguments when building a `cdylib`.][cargo/6298] Its usage is highly
platform specific.
Misc
----
- [The Rust toolchain is now available natively for musl based distros.][58575]
[59460]: rust-lang/rust#59460
[59464]: rust-lang/rust#59464
[59500]: rust-lang/rust#59500
[59512]: rust-lang/rust#59512
[59580]: rust-lang/rust#59580
[59283]: rust-lang/rust#59283
[59451]: rust-lang/rust#59451
[59076]: rust-lang/rust#59076
[58778]: rust-lang/rust#58778
[58717]: rust-lang/rust#58717
[58369]: rust-lang/rust#58369
[58423]: rust-lang/rust#58423
[58080]: rust-lang/rust#58080
[57847]: rust-lang/rust#57847
[58575]: rust-lang/rust#58575
[cargo/6298]: rust-lang/cargo#6298
[`f32::copysign`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/primitive.f32.html#method.copysign
[`f64::copysign`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/primitive.f64.html#method.copysign
[`RefCell::replace_with`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/cell/struct.RefCell.html#method.replace_with
[`RefCell::map_split`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/cell/struct.RefCell.html#method.map_split
[`ptr::hash`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/ptr/fn.hash.html
[`Range::contains`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.Range.html#method.contains
[`RangeFrom::contains`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.RangeFrom.html#method.contains
[`RangeTo::contains`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.RangeTo.html#method.contains
[`RangeInclusive::contains`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.RangeInclusive.html#method.contains
[`RangeToInclusive::contains`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/struct.RangeToInclusive.html#method.contains
[`Option::copied`]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/enum.Option.html#method.copied
Reformatted output of
./x.py bench src/libcore --test-args asciibelow. Thelibcorebenchmark calls[u8]::make_ascii_lowercase.lookuphas code (effectively) identical to that before this PR, andbranchlessmask_shifted_bool_match_rangeafter this PR.See code comments inu8::to_ascii_uppercaseinsrc/libcore/num/mod.rsfor an explanation of the branchless algorithm.Update: the algorithm was simplified while keeping the performance. See
branchlessv.s.mask_shifted_bool_match_rangebenchmarks.Credits to @raphlinus for the idea in https://twitter.com/raphlinus/status/1107654782544736261, which extends this algorithm to “fake SIMD” on
u32to convert four bytes at a time. Thefake_simd_u32benchmarks implements this withlet (before, aligned, after) = bytes.align_to_mut::<u32>(). Note however that this is buggy when addition carries/overflows into the next byte (which does not happen if the input is known to be ASCII).This could be fixed (to optimize
[u8]::make_ascii_lowercaseand[u8]::make_ascii_uppercaseinsrc/libcore/slice/mod.rs) either with some more bitwise trickery that I didn’t quite figure out, or by using “real” SIMD intrinsics for byte-wise addition. I did not pursue this however because the current (incorrect) fake SIMD algorithm is only marginally faster than the one-byte-at-a-time branchless algorithm. This is because LLVM auto-vectorizes the latter, as can be seen on https://rust.godbolt.org/z/anKtbR.Benchmark results on Linux x64 with Intel i7-7700K: (updated from #59283 (comment))