Investigating a susprisingly slow-compiling module recently, it turns
out that if you create a wasm module with 40k empty functions (e.g.
`(module (func) (func) (func) ...)`) then it takes **3 seconds** to
compile and drop via the CLI locally on a Linux system. This seems like
an extraordinary amount of time for "doing nothing", and after some
profiling I found that basically all of the time was spent in
`__deregister_frame` calls.
Poking around in the source it looks like libgcc is managing some form
of linked list, and by deregistering in the LIFO order instead of FIFO
order it avoids a quadratic search of all registered functions. Now that
being said it's still pretty bad to do a linear search all the time, and
nothing will be fixed if there are *two* instances both with 40k
functions.
For now though I hope that this will patch over the performance issue
and we can figure out better ways to manage this in the future.
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