In PR #66329 we created a MIR optimization pass that optimizes away unreachable basic blocks, i.e., basic blocks whose terminator kind is Unreachable.
Running on rustc_perfwe observed improvement in all benchmarks except unicode-normalization (avg ~3%) and deeply-nested-opt (avg: 740644.6%). A more complete analysis of the compile times can be found here and here. As explained by @bjorn3, for deeply-nested-opt the LLVM related queries are the ones slowing down, not anything inside rustc.
Until the root cause of the increase in compile times is found and fixed, we have made the optimization available only as a level 3 optimization.
In PR #66329 we created a MIR optimization pass that optimizes away unreachable basic blocks, i.e., basic blocks whose terminator kind is Unreachable.
Running on
rustc_perfwe observed improvement in all benchmarks except unicode-normalization (avg ~3%) and deeply-nested-opt (avg: 740644.6%). A more complete analysis of the compile times can be found here and here. As explained by @bjorn3, fordeeply-nested-optthe LLVM related queries are the ones slowing down, not anything inside rustc.Until the root cause of the increase in compile times is found and fixed, we have made the optimization available only as a level 3 optimization.