In order to keep the `ExternalName` enum small, the `TestcaseName`
struct was limited to 17 bytes: a 1 byte length and a 16 byte buffer.
Due to alignment, that made `ExternalName` 20 bytes.
That fixed-size buffer means that the names of functions in Cranelift
filetests are truncated to fit, which limits our ability to give tests
meaningful names. And I think meaningful names are important in tests.
This patch replaces the inline `TestcaseName` buffer with a
heap-allocated slice. We don't care about performance for test names, so
an indirection out to the heap is fine in that case. But we do care
somewhat about the size of `ExternalName` when it's used during
compiles.
On 64-bit systems, `Box<[u8]>` is 16 bytes, so `TestcaseName` gets one
byte smaller. Unfortunately, its alignment is 8 bytes, so `ExternalName`
grows from 20 to 24 bytes.
According to `valgrind --tool=dhat`, this change has very little effect
on compiler performance. Building wasmtime with `--no-default-features
--release`, and compiling the pulldown-cmark benchmark from Sightglass,
I measured these differences between `main` and this patch:
- total number of allocations didn't change (`ExternalName::TestCase` is
not used in normal compiles)
- 592 more bytes allocated over the process lifetime, out of 171.5MiB
- 320 more bytes allocated at peak heap size, out of 12MiB
- 0.24% more instructions executed
- 16,987 more bytes written
- 12,120 _fewer_ bytes read
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