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inference: ~~refine~~ replace recursion non-detection algorithm #23912

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@vtjnash vtjnash commented Sep 28, 2017

Refinement Replacement of #21933 recursion detection and handling.

The general idea here of the first commit is that it is sufficient to prevent recursion complexity growth over entire edges. Previously, we only considered the callee vertex when detecting recursive method calls. However, it should also be valid to consider both vertexes. But considering the callee also, we can significantly increase the range of cases that we can allow inference to consider, without triggering the recursion detection limiter. This should be generally sufficient to ensure we can infer "bottleneck"-type functions, without significantly sacrificing our convergence requirements.

For an example of when this new heuristic comes into effect, consider print: a significant number of these methods are reached from calling vararg print and themselves call vararg print.

print(arg...) = foreach(print, arg)
print(arg) = print("hi", 1, 2, 3)

Naively, those recursive vararg print calls have no obvious complexity bound on their own, and thus can't be inferred. However, when we add in the consideration of this PR that each one has a different caller method, that doesn’t need to be detected as recursion.

Thus, this may incidentally should fix #23371 (though my actually reason for this is for some other WIP I have locally).

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The remaining commits in the PR make it harder to trigger the unbounded recursion detection, but increase the effective penalty for doing so. Now inference runs in one of two modes: limited or unlimited. This allows us to cache the limited and unlimited inference results separately.

@vtjnash vtjnash added the compiler:inference Type inference label Sep 28, 2017
@@ -5463,6 +5464,7 @@ t4 = vcat(A23567, t2, t3)
@test t4[11:15] == A23567

for U in unboxedunions
Base.unionlen(U) > 5 && continue # larger values cause subtyping to crash
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Related? If so, how? Does the better inference perform more/other subtype checks that now trigger the crash?

&& !istopfunction(tm, f, :setindex!)
# the construct-to-convert method is a bottleneck in inference,
# so just assume that recursion will get prevented at some other point
&& !(method.sig == Tuple{Type, Any}))
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💯 for being able to remove all those special cases!

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vtjnash commented Sep 28, 2017

@nanosoldier runbenchmarks(ALL, vs=":master")

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Still seems to be an inference problem on AV. Oh well.

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Your benchmark job has completed - possible performance regressions were detected. A full report can be found here. cc @ararslan

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I've seen the exact same inference issue on AV in #23827 and #23273.

@vtjnash vtjnash changed the title inference: refine recursion non-detection inference: ~~refine~~ replace recursion non-detection algorithm Oct 4, 2017
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vtjnash commented Oct 4, 2017

@nanosoldier runbenchmarks(ALL, vs=":master")

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A few words on the changes to the type complexity limiting would be appreciated.

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Your benchmark job has completed - possible performance regressions were detected. A full report can be found here. cc @ararslan

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vtjnash commented Oct 5, 2017

The main change is just that I relaxed the rules for unbounded recursion detection. For example, the hard cutoff on depth and length is gone. As a trade-off, the handling of recursion now limits more aggressively. Overall, that should mean this is actually friendlier to code that wants to recursively reduce some tuple (as demonstrated by the nanosoldier results), while being faster to handle cases where there is "accidental" recursion (Typical cases were I see this are from depwarn – due to a couple deprecated primitive functions – and the REPL code – due to specializations of refresh_multi_line. Also the inference code – since it is indeed a heavily recursive algorithm.)

…riggering recursion detection

This is generally sufficient to ensure we can infer "bottleneck"-type functions,
without significantly sacrificing our convergence requirements
These should now be covered by the improved recursion detector.
remove code to handle exponential blowup,
since there isn't any
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vtjnash commented Oct 9, 2017

All passing finally (except for new flakiness in sprand tests). Will merge tomorrow.

@vtjnash vtjnash merged commit 10d470d into master Oct 10, 2017
@vtjnash vtjnash deleted the jn/infer-norecur-more branch October 10, 2017 15:19
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Does this fix #22255 ?

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