Heuristic improvement: reg-scan offset by inst location.
We currently use a heuristic that our scan for an available PReg starts at an index into the register list that rotates with the bundle index. This is a simple way to distribute contention across the whole register file more evenly and avoid repeating less-likely-to-succeed reg-map probes to lower-numbered registers for every bundle. After some experimentation with different options (queue that dynamically puts registers at end after allocating, various ways of mixing/hashing indices, etc.), adding the *instruction offset* (of the start of the first range in the bundle) as well gave the best results. This is very simple and gives us a likely better-than-random conflict avoidance because ranges tend to be local, so rotating through registers as we scan down the list of instructions seems like a very natural strategy. On the tests used by our `cargo bench` benchmark, this reduces regfile probes for the largest (459 instruction) benchmark from 1538 to 829, i.e., approximately by half, and results in an 11% allocation speedup.
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I then measured three different fuzztest-SSA-generator test cases in
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this allocator, `regalloc2`, measuring between 1.05M and 2.3M
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this allocator, `regalloc2`, measuring between 1.1M and 2.3M
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instructions per second (closer to the former for larger functions):
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==== 459 instructions
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benches/0 time: [424.46 us 425.65 us 426.59 us]
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thrpt: [1.0760 Melem/s 1.0784 Melem/s 1.0814 Melem/s]
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benches/0 time: [377.91 us 378.09 us 378.27 us]
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thrpt: [1.2134 Melem/s 1.2140 Melem/s 1.2146 Melem/s]
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==== 225 instructions
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benches/1 time: [213.05 us 213.28 us 213.54 us]
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thrpt: [1.0537 Melem/s 1.0549 Melem/s 1.0561 Melem/s]
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benches/1 time: [202.03 us 202.14 us 202.27 us]
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thrpt: [1.1124 Melem/s 1.1131 Melem/s 1.1137 Melem/s]
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Found 1 outliers among 100 measurements (1.00%)
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1 (1.00%) high mild
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==== 21 instructions
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benches/2 time: [9.0495 us 9.0571 us 9.0641 us]
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thrpt: [2.3168 Melem/s 2.3186 Melem/s 2.3206 Melem/s]
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Found 4 outliers among 100 measurements (4.00%)
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2 (2.00%) high mild
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2 (2.00%) high severe
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benches/2 time: [9.5605 us 9.5655 us 9.5702 us]
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thrpt: [2.1943 Melem/s 2.1954 Melem/s 2.1965 Melem/s]
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```
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Though not apples-to-apples (SSA vs. non-SSA, completely different
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