inference: revive CachedMethodTable mechanism

`CachedMethodTable` was removed within #44240 as we couldn't confirm any
performance improvement then. However it turns out the optimization was
critical in some real world cases (e.g. #46492), so this commit revives
the mechanism with the following tweaks that should make it more effective:
- create method table cache per inference (rather than per local
  inference on a function call as on the previous implementation)
- only use cache mechanism for abstract types (since we already cache
  lookup result at the next level as for concrete types)

As a result, the following snippet reported at #46492 recovers the
compilation performance:
```julia
using ControlSystems
a_2 = [-5 -3; 2 -9]
C_212 = ss(a_2, [1; 2], [1 0; 0 1], [0; 0])
@time norm(C_212)
```

> on master
```
julia> @time norm(C_212)
364.489044 seconds (724.44 M allocations: 92.524 GiB, 6.01% gc time, 100.00% compilation time)
0.5345224838248489
```

> on this commit
```
julia> @time norm(C_212)
 26.539016 seconds (62.09 M allocations: 5.537 GiB, 5.55% gc time, 100.00% compilation time)
0.5345224838248489
```

base/compiler/abstractinterpretation.jl

@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ function find_matching_methods(argtypes::Vector{Any}, @nospecialize(atype), meth
             if result === missing
                 return FailedMethodMatch("For one of the union split cases, too many methods matched")
             end
-            matches, overlayed = result
+            (; matches, overlayed) = result
             nonoverlayed &= !overlayed
             push!(infos, MethodMatchInfo(matches))
             for m in matches
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ function find_matching_methods(argtypes::Vector{Any}, @nospecialize(atype), meth
             # (assume this will always be true, so we don't compute / update valid age in this case)
             return FailedMethodMatch("Too many methods matched")
         end
-        matches, overlayed = result
+        (; matches, overlayed) = result
         fullmatch = _any(match->(match::MethodMatch).fully_covers, matches)
         return MethodMatches(matches.matches,
                              MethodMatchInfo(matches),

base/compiler/compiler.jl

@@ -139,11 +139,11 @@ something(x::Any, y...) = x
 ############
 
 include("compiler/cicache.jl")
+include("compiler/methodtable.jl")
 include("compiler/effects.jl")
 include("compiler/types.jl")
 include("compiler/utilities.jl")
 include("compiler/validation.jl")
-include("compiler/methodtable.jl")
 
 function argextype end # imported by EscapeAnalysis
 function stmt_effect_free end # imported by EscapeAnalysis

base/compiler/methodtable.jl

@@ -2,6 +2,27 @@
 
 abstract type MethodTableView; end
 
+struct MethodLookupResult
+    # Really Vector{Core.MethodMatch}, but it's easier to represent this as
+    # and work with Vector{Any} on the C side.
+    matches::Vector{Any}
+    valid_worlds::WorldRange
+    ambig::Bool
+end
+length(result::MethodLookupResult) = length(result.matches)
+function iterate(result::MethodLookupResult, args...)
+    r = iterate(result.matches, args...)
+    r === nothing && return nothing
+    match, state = r
+    return (match::MethodMatch, state)
+end
+getindex(result::MethodLookupResult, idx::Int) = getindex(result.matches, idx)::MethodMatch
+
+struct MethodMatchResult
+    matches::MethodLookupResult
+    overlayed::Bool
+end
+
 """
     struct InternalMethodTable <: MethodTableView
 
@@ -23,25 +44,21 @@ struct OverlayMethodTable <: MethodTableView
     mt::Core.MethodTable
 end
 
-struct MethodLookupResult
-    # Really Vector{Core.MethodMatch}, but it's easier to represent this as
-    # and work with Vector{Any} on the C side.
-    matches::Vector{Any}
-    valid_worlds::WorldRange
-    ambig::Bool
-end
-length(result::MethodLookupResult) = length(result.matches)
-function iterate(result::MethodLookupResult, args...)
-    r = iterate(result.matches, args...)
-    r === nothing && return nothing
-    match, state = r
-    return (match::MethodMatch, state)
+"""
+    struct CachedMethodTable <: MethodTableView
+
+Overlays another method table view with an additional local fast path cache that
+can respond to repeated, identical queries faster than the original method table.
+"""
+struct CachedMethodTable{T} <: MethodTableView
+    cache::IdDict{Any, Union{Missing, MethodMatchResult}}
+    table::T
 end
-getindex(result::MethodLookupResult, idx::Int) = getindex(result.matches, idx)::MethodMatch
+CachedMethodTable(table::T) where T = CachedMethodTable{T}(IdDict{Any, Union{Missing, MethodMatchResult}}(), table)
 
 """
     findall(sig::Type, view::MethodTableView; limit::Int=typemax(Int)) ->
-        (matches::MethodLookupResult, overlayed::Bool) or missing
+        MethodMatchResult(matches::MethodLookupResult, overlayed::Bool) or missing
 
 Find all methods in the given method table `view` that are applicable to the given signature `sig`.
 If no applicable methods are found, an empty result is returned.
@@ -51,7 +68,7 @@ If the number of applicable methods exceeded the specified limit, `missing` is r
 function findall(@nospecialize(sig::Type), table::InternalMethodTable; limit::Int=Int(typemax(Int32)))
     result = _findall(sig, nothing, table.world, limit)
     result === missing && return missing
-    return result, false
+    return MethodMatchResult(result, false)
 end
 
 function findall(@nospecialize(sig::Type), table::OverlayMethodTable; limit::Int=Int(typemax(Int32)))
@@ -60,18 +77,20 @@ function findall(@nospecialize(sig::Type), table::OverlayMethodTable; limit::Int
     nr = length(result)
     if nr ≥ 1 && result[nr].fully_covers
         # no need to fall back to the internal method table
-        return result, true
+        return MethodMatchResult(result, true)
     end
     # fall back to the internal method table
     fallback_result = _findall(sig, nothing, table.world, limit)
     fallback_result === missing && return missing
     # merge the fallback match results with the internal method table
-    return MethodLookupResult(
-        vcat(result.matches, fallback_result.matches),
-        WorldRange(
-            max(result.valid_worlds.min_world, fallback_result.valid_worlds.min_world),
-            min(result.valid_worlds.max_world, fallback_result.valid_worlds.max_world)),
-        result.ambig | fallback_result.ambig), !isempty(result)
+    return MethodMatchResult(
+        MethodLookupResult(
+            vcat(result.matches, fallback_result.matches),
+            WorldRange(
+                max(result.valid_worlds.min_world, fallback_result.valid_worlds.min_world),
+                min(result.valid_worlds.max_world, fallback_result.valid_worlds.max_world)),
+            result.ambig | fallback_result.ambig),
+        !isempty(result))
 end
 
 function _findall(@nospecialize(sig::Type), mt::Union{Nothing,Core.MethodTable}, world::UInt, limit::Int)
@@ -85,6 +104,17 @@ function _findall(@nospecialize(sig::Type), mt::Union{Nothing,Core.MethodTable},
     return MethodLookupResult(ms::Vector{Any}, WorldRange(_min_val[], _max_val[]), _ambig[] != 0)
 end
 
+function findall(@nospecialize(sig::Type), table::CachedMethodTable; limit::Int=typemax(Int))
+    if isconcretetype(sig)
+        # as for concrete types, we cache result at on the next level
+        return findall(sig, table.table; limit)
+    end
+    box = Core.Box(sig)
+    return get!(table.cache, sig) do
+        findall(box.contents, table.table; limit)
+    end
+end
+
 """
     findsup(sig::Type, view::MethodTableView) ->
         (match::MethodMatch, valid_worlds::WorldRange, overlayed::Bool) or nothing
@@ -129,6 +159,10 @@ function _findsup(@nospecialize(sig::Type), mt::Union{Nothing,Core.MethodTable},
     return match, valid_worlds
 end
 
+# This query is not cached
+findsup(@nospecialize(sig::Type), table::CachedMethodTable) = findsup(sig, table.table)
+
 isoverlayed(::MethodTableView)     = error("unsatisfied MethodTableView interface")
 isoverlayed(::InternalMethodTable) = false
 isoverlayed(::OverlayMethodTable)  = true
+isoverlayed(mt::CachedMethodTable) = isoverlayed(mt.table)

base/compiler/types.jl

@@ -158,6 +158,8 @@ struct NativeInterpreter <: AbstractInterpreter
     cache::Vector{InferenceResult}
     # The world age we're working inside of
     world::UInt
+    # method table to lookup for during inference on this world age
+    method_table::CachedMethodTable{InternalMethodTable}
 
     # Parameters for inference and optimization
     inf_params::InferenceParams
@@ -167,27 +169,21 @@ struct NativeInterpreter <: AbstractInterpreter
                                inf_params = InferenceParams(),
                                opt_params = OptimizationParams(),
                                )
+        cache = Vector{InferenceResult}() # Initially empty cache
+
         # Sometimes the caller is lazy and passes typemax(UInt).
         # we cap it to the current world age
         if world == typemax(UInt)
             world = get_world_counter()
         end
 
+        method_table = CachedMethodTable(InternalMethodTable(world))
+
         # If they didn't pass typemax(UInt) but passed something more subtly
         # incorrect, fail out loudly.
         @assert world <= get_world_counter()
 
-        return new(
-            # Initially empty cache
-            Vector{InferenceResult}(),
-
-            # world age counter
-            world,
-
-            # parameters for inference and optimization
-            inf_params,
-            opt_params,
-        )
+        return new(cache, world, method_table, inf_params, opt_params)
     end
 end
 
@@ -251,6 +247,7 @@ External `AbstractInterpreter` can optionally return `OverlayMethodTable` here
 to incorporate customized dispatches for the overridden methods.
 """
 method_table(interp::AbstractInterpreter) = InternalMethodTable(get_world_counter(interp))
+method_table(interp::NativeInterpreter) = interp.method_table
 
 """
 By default `AbstractInterpreter` implements the following inference bail out logic: