llvm dev - Mar 2018 - [cfe-dev] Clang executable sizes and build stats

Hi all,

I recently did a run where I built clang executables on FreeBSD 12-CURRENT [1],
from trunk r250000 (2015-10-11) all through r327700 (2018-03-16), with
increments of 100 revisions.  This is mainly meant as an archive, for easily
doing bisections, but there are also some interesting statistics.

From r250000 through r327700:
* the total (stripped) executable size grew by approximately 43%
* the size of the text segment grew by approximately 41%
* the size of the data segment grew by approximately 61%
* the size of the bss segment grew by approximately 185%
* real build time (on a 32 core system) grew by approximately 60%
* user build time (on a 32 core system) grew by approximately 62%
* maximum resident set size (RSS) grew by approximately 32%

Google spreadsheet with more numbers and some graphs:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSGq1U7j45JNC_bcG4HV3jKOV4WBUPbTSgMMFXd5SD0IEPTAFwWnlU2ysprmnHsNe5WONRCjg8F5mHK/pubhtml

-Dimitry

[1] These were built using the "ninja clang clang-headers" target,
followed by "ninja install-clang install-clang-headers".

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Thanks for raising this. This is something we've recently been looking at
too at Sony, as over the course of PS4's lifetime so far we've seen our
clang executable on Windows approximately double in size, which isn't ideal
for things like distributed build systems.  A graph of clang.exe size on
our internal staging branch matches yours closely with it being more of a
death by a thousand cuts rather than being down to a small number of sudden
big-bang changes.

I did spot one range of about 25 upstream commits in our data where the exe
size increased by over 1MB. My prime suspect in that range was a new
scheduling model being added to the X86 backend but I've not bisected
further to be sure yet.  This would be an interesting case for us as we
don't really need to support any models other than Jaguar for our users but
don't want to break the LLVM tests, nor introduce loads of private changes
to our branch.

I know our test/QA team have been doing some analysis using Bloaty
McBloatFace to see exactly where the size is coming from and produced some
really nice visualizations of that data.  They've also been looking at how
the MinSizeRelease config does on Windows. I think the size savings were
decent but I'm not sure of performance numbers, if they have any yet.

I'll ask around at what we have to share once back in the office.

Thanks for sharing your data!

-Greg



On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 at 12:36, Dimitry Andric via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently did a run where I built clang executables on FreeBSD 12-CURRENT
> [1], from trunk r250000 (2015-10-11) all through r327700 (2018-03-16), with
> increments of 100 revisions.  This is mainly meant as an archive, for
> easily doing bisections, but there are also some interesting statistics.
>
> From r250000 through r327700:
> * the total (stripped) executable size grew by approximately 43%
> * the size of the text segment grew by approximately 41%
> * the size of the data segment grew by approximately 61%
> * the size of the bss segment grew by approximately 185%
> * real build time (on a 32 core system) grew by approximately 60%
> * user build time (on a 32 core system) grew by approximately 62%
> * maximum resident set size (RSS) grew by approximately 32%
>
> Google spreadsheet with more numbers and some graphs:
>
>
>
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSGq1U7j45JNC_bcG4HV3jKOV4WBUPbTSgMMFXd5SD0IEPTAFwWnlU2ysprmnHsNe5WONRCjg8F5mHK/pubhtml
>
> -Dimitry
>
> [1] These were built using the "ninja clang clang-headers"
target,
> followed by "ninja install-clang install-clang-headers".
>
> _______________________________________________
> cfe-dev mailing list
> cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
> http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev
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I'm sure the x86 scheduler models are causing bloat. Every time a single
instruction appears on a line by itself like this in a scheduler model:

def: InstRW<[SBWriteResGroup2], (instregex "ANDNPDrr")>;

It causes that instruction to be its own group in the generated output. And
its replicated for each CPU. We should look into better using regular
expressions or taking advantage of the fact that InstRW can take a list of
instructions. That makes those instructions part of a single group and the
tablegen backend will only split the group if two CPUs have different
ports, latency, etc. for instructions within the group.

~Craig

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 6:26 AM, Greg Bedwell via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Thanks for raising this. This is something we've recently been looking
at
> too at Sony, as over the course of PS4's lifetime so far we've seen
our
> clang executable on Windows approximately double in size, which isn't
ideal
> for things like distributed build systems.  A graph of clang.exe size on
> our internal staging branch matches yours closely with it being more of a
> death by a thousand cuts rather than being down to a small number of sudden
> big-bang changes.
>
> I did spot one range of about 25 upstream commits in our data where the
> exe size increased by over 1MB. My prime suspect in that range was a new
> scheduling model being added to the X86 backend but I've not bisected
> further to be sure yet.  This would be an interesting case for us as we
> don't really need to support any models other than Jaguar for our users
but
> don't want to break the LLVM tests, nor introduce loads of private
changes
> to our branch.
>
> I know our test/QA team have been doing some analysis using Bloaty
> McBloatFace to see exactly where the size is coming from and produced some
> really nice visualizations of that data.  They've also been looking at
how
> the MinSizeRelease config does on Windows. I think the size savings were
> decent but I'm not sure of performance numbers, if they have any yet.
>
> I'll ask around at what we have to share once back in the office.
>
> Thanks for sharing your data!
>
> -Greg
>
>
>
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2018 at 12:36, Dimitry Andric via cfe-dev <
> cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I recently did a run where I built clang executables on FreeBSD
>> 12-CURRENT [1], from trunk r250000 (2015-10-11) all through r327700
>> (2018-03-16), with increments of 100 revisions.  This is mainly meant
as an
>> archive, for easily doing bisections, but there are also some
interesting
>> statistics.
>>
>> From r250000 through r327700:
>> * the total (stripped) executable size grew by approximately 43%
>> * the size of the text segment grew by approximately 41%
>> * the size of the data segment grew by approximately 61%
>> * the size of the bss segment grew by approximately 185%
>> * real build time (on a 32 core system) grew by approximately 60%
>> * user build time (on a 32 core system) grew by approximately 62%
>> * maximum resident set size (RSS) grew by approximately 32%
>>
>> Google spreadsheet with more numbers and some graphs:
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSGq1U7j45JNC_
>>
bcG4HV3jKOV4WBUPbTSgMMFXd5SD0IEPTAFwWnlU2ysprmnHsNe5WONRCjg8F5mHK/pubhtml
>>
>> -Dimitry
>>
>> [1] These were built using the "ninja clang clang-headers"
target,
>> followed by "ninja install-clang install-clang-headers".
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> cfe-dev mailing list
>> cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
>> http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-dev
>>
>
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