Description

• Apply the optimizations from Better integral range lowering: start..finish, start..step..finish #16650 to lists and arrays constructed from simple, direct range mappings, i.e. —

  • [for n in start..finish -> n]
  • [for n in start..finish -> f n]
  • [for n in start..step..finish -> n]
  • [for n in start..step..finish -> f n]
  • [|for n in start..finish -> n|]
  • [|for n in start..finish -> f n|]
  • [|for n in start..step..finish -> n|]
  • [|for n in start..step..finish -> f n|]

  — where f stands for any arbitrary transformation of n.

  This also applies to the syntax [for n in start..finish do yield n], etc., when there is exactly one yield, and to [for n in start..finish do f (); …; yield n], for any depth of sequential expressions, as long as there is still exactly one yield.

  The generated loop IL for [for n in start..finish -> n], etc., is identical to that generated for [start..finish].

Benchmarks

The performance improvement looks to be the same as that in #16650 (i.e., up to 8×), as would be expected, since it's the same count and initialization loop code. I can run a more thorough suite if desired.

| Categories                                                                      | Mean      | Ratio | Gen0    | Gen1    | Gen2    | Allocated  | Alloc Ratio |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |----------:|------:|--------:|--------:|--------:|-----------:|------------:|
| Array,[|for n in start..step..finish -> n * n|] (start=1,step=2,finish=65536)   | 205.05 us |  1.00 | 83.2520 | 83.2520 | 83.2520 |  384.49 KB |        1.00 |
| Array,[|for n in start..step..finish -> n * n|] (start=1,step=2,finish=65536)   |  43.95 us |  0.21 | 41.6260 | 41.6260 | 41.6260 |  128.04 KB |        0.33 |
|                                                                                 |           |       |         |         |         |            |             |
| List,[for n in start..step..finish -> n * n] (start=1,step=2,finish=65536)      | 197.15 us |  1.00 | 83.4961 | 71.7773 |       - | 1024.09 KB |        1.00 |
| List,[for n in start..step..finish -> n * n] (start=1,step=2,finish=65536)      | 158.13 us |  0.80 | 83.4961 | 71.5332 |       - |    1024 KB |        1.00 |

Checklist

• Test cases added
• Performance benchmarks added in case of performance changes
• Release notes entry updated

Notes

This PR also optimizes simple mappings comprised of one or more sequential expressions like [for n in start..finish do printfn "abc"; yield n], where there is exactly one yield (5d52462). We could theoretically go even further and detect a statically-known number of yields > 1 and factor that back into the total iteration count, but that seems like a step too far for now.