This CL optimizes Pointer operations in hot loops for Pointer<NativeInteger/NativeDouble/Pointer> (not for structs).
Design: go/dart-ffi-pointers-il
It provides roughly a 100x speedup for the FfiMemory benchmark. The next 5x speedup is to get rid of allocations due to `load` and `store` not being inlined.
FFI API is changed to enable optimizations:
* Disable dynamic invocations of Pointer.load / Pointer.store.
* Disallow implicit downcast of argument passed to Pointer.store.
* Stop zeroing out Pointer.address on Pointer.free().
Issue: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/38172
Related issues:
Closes: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/35902 (Disallowing dynamic invocations of Pointer ops.)
Closes: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/37385 (Function variance checking.)
Change-Id: I96058d8b5b49052eb6999f084372e6f08b4f6f17
Cq-Include-Trybots: luci.dart.try:vm-ffi-android-debug-arm-try,vm-ffi-android-debug-arm64-try,app-kernel-linux-debug-x64-try,vm-kernel-linux-debug-ia32-try,vm-dartkb-linux-debug-simarm64-try,vm-kernel-win-debug-x64-try,vm-kernel-win-debug-ia32-try,vm-dartkb-linux-debug-x64-try,vm-kernel-precomp-linux-debug-x64-try,vm-dartkb-linux-release-x64-abi-try,vm-kernel-precomp-android-release-arm64-try
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/117547
Commit-Queue: Daco Harkes <dacoharkes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Kustermann <kustermann@google.com>
Daco Harkes
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