Make RegionName Copy by (transitively) interning the few string variants

Author: amandasystems

compiler/rustc_borrowck/src/diagnostics/region_name.rs

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ use crate::{universal_regions::DefiningTy, MirBorrowckCtxt};
 
 /// A name for a particular region used in emitting diagnostics. This name could be a generated
 /// name like `'1`, a name used by the user like `'a`, or a name like `'static`.
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
 pub(crate) struct RegionName {
     /// The name of the region (interned).
     pub(crate) name: Symbol,
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ pub(crate) struct RegionName {
 /// Denotes the source of a region that is named by a `RegionName`. For example, a free region that
 /// was named by the user would get `NamedLateParamRegion` and `'static` lifetime would get `Static`.
 /// This helps to print the right kinds of diagnostics.
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
 pub(crate) enum RegionNameSource {
     /// A bound (not free) region that was instantiated at the def site (not an HRTB).
     NamedEarlyParamRegion(Span),
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ pub(crate) enum RegionNameSource {
     /// The region corresponding to the return type of a closure.
     AnonRegionFromOutput(RegionNameHighlight, &'static str),
     /// The region from a type yielded by a coroutine.
-    AnonRegionFromYieldTy(Span, String),
+    AnonRegionFromYieldTy(Span, Symbol),
     /// An anonymous region from an async fn.
     AnonRegionFromAsyncFn(Span),
     /// An anonymous region from an impl self type or trait
@@ -52,19 +52,19 @@ pub(crate) enum RegionNameSource {
 
 /// Describes what to highlight to explain to the user that we're giving an anonymous region a
 /// synthesized name, and how to highlight it.
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
 pub(crate) enum RegionNameHighlight {
     /// The anonymous region corresponds to a reference that was found by traversing the type in the HIR.
     MatchedHirTy(Span),
     /// The anonymous region corresponds to a `'_` in the generics list of a struct/enum/union.
     MatchedAdtAndSegment(Span),
     /// The anonymous region corresponds to a region where the type annotation is completely missing
     /// from the code, e.g. in a closure arguments `|x| { ... }`, where `x` is a reference.
-    CannotMatchHirTy(Span, String),
+    CannotMatchHirTy(Span, Symbol),
     /// The anonymous region corresponds to a region where the type annotation is completely missing
     /// from the code, and *even if* we print out the full name of the type, the region name won't
     /// be included. This currently occurs for opaque types like `impl Future`.
-    Occluded(Span, String),
+    Occluded(Span, Symbol),
 }
 
 impl RegionName {
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ impl<'tcx> MirBorrowckCtxt<'_, 'tcx> {
         assert!(self.regioncx.universal_regions().is_universal_region(fr));
 
         match self.region_names.borrow_mut().entry(fr) {
-            IndexEntry::Occupied(precomputed_name) => Some(precomputed_name.get().clone()),
+            IndexEntry::Occupied(precomputed_name) => Some(*precomputed_name.get()),
             IndexEntry::Vacant(slot) => {
                 let new_name = self
                     .give_name_from_error_region(fr)
@@ -262,8 +262,8 @@ impl<'tcx> MirBorrowckCtxt<'_, 'tcx> {
                         self.give_name_if_anonymous_region_appears_in_arg_position_impl_trait(fr)
                     });
 
-                if let Some(new_name) = &new_name {
-                    slot.insert(new_name.clone());
+                if let Some(new_name) = new_name {
+                    slot.insert(new_name);
                 }
                 debug!("give_region_a_name: gave name {:?}", new_name);
 
@@ -460,9 +460,9 @@ impl<'tcx> MirBorrowckCtxt<'_, 'tcx> {
         );
         if type_name.contains(&format!("'{counter}")) {
             // Only add a label if we can confirm that a region was labelled.
-            RegionNameHighlight::CannotMatchHirTy(span, type_name)
+            RegionNameHighlight::CannotMatchHirTy(span, Symbol::intern(&type_name))
         } else {
-            RegionNameHighlight::Occluded(span, type_name)
+            RegionNameHighlight::Occluded(span, Symbol::intern(&type_name))
         }
     }
 
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ impl<'tcx> MirBorrowckCtxt<'_, 'tcx> {
 
         Some(RegionName {
             name: self.synthesize_region_name(),
-            source: RegionNameSource::AnonRegionFromYieldTy(yield_span, type_name),
+            source: RegionNameSource::AnonRegionFromYieldTy(yield_span, Symbol::intern(&type_name)),
         })
     }
 
@@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ impl<'tcx> MirBorrowckCtxt<'_, 'tcx> {
             Some(RegionName {
                 name: region_name,
                 source: RegionNameSource::AnonRegionFromArgument(
-                    RegionNameHighlight::CannotMatchHirTy(arg_span, arg_name?.to_string()),
+                    RegionNameHighlight::CannotMatchHirTy(arg_span, arg_name?),
                 ),
             })
         } else {