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improve compiler performance on dot fields after #24005 (#24074)
I noticed after #24005 the auto-reported boot time in PRs increased from around 8 seconds to 8.8 seconds, but I wasn't sure what could cause a performance problem that made the compiler itself compile slower, most of the changes were related to `static` which the compiler code doesn't use too often. So I figured it was unrelated. However there is still a performance problem with the changes to `tryReadingGenericParam`. If an expression like `a.b` doesn't match any of the default dot field behavior (for example, is actually a call `b(a)`), the compiler does a final check to see if `b` is a generic parameter of `a`. Since #24005, if the type of `a` is not `tyGenericInst` or an old concept type, the compiler does a full traversal of the type of `a` to see if it contains a generic type, only then checking for `c.inGenericContext > 0` to not return `nil`. This happens on *every* dot call. Instead, we now check for `c.inGenericContext > 0` first, only then checking if it contains a generic type, saving performance by virtue of `c.inGenericContext > 0` being both cheap and less commonly true. The `containsGenericType` could also be swapped out for more generic type kind checks, but I think this is incorrect even if it might pass CI.
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@@ -1504,12 +1504,9 @@ proc tryReadingGenericParam(c: PContext, n: PNode, i: PIdent, t: PType): PNode =
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result.typ = makeTypeFromExpr(c, copyTree(result))
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else:
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result = nil
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elif t.containsGenericType:
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if c.inGenericContext > 0:
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result = semGenericStmt(c, n)
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result.typ = makeTypeFromExpr(c, copyTree(result))
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else:
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result = nil
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elif c.inGenericContext > 0 and t.containsGenericType:
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result = semGenericStmt(c, n)
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result.typ = makeTypeFromExpr(c, copyTree(result))
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else:
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result = nil
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