Significantly improve performance of SyntaxVisitor #2536
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There are two core ideas here:
Syntax.Infofor every visited node. We need a heap-allocated object here becauseSyntaxcan access its parent. In most cases, however, the syntax node was not stored by the visitor and we would just destroy theSyntax.Infoafter finishing thevisitcall. Instead, check ifSyntax.Infois uniquely referenced, which means that the the node was not stored. In that case, don’t deallocate the memory but place it into a reuse pool. I have seen reductions inmalloccalls from ~50,000 to ~100 (500x) intestEmptyVisitorPerformance.I measured that this improves the performance of the
EmptyParametersRulein SwiftLint by ~35% compared to509.0.0(and by ~50% compared to510.0.0).Fixes #2091
rdar://114330163