balazs-benics-sonarsource wrote:

> 🤔 The version with the commit under review is surprisingly fast and I don't 
> exactly know why. My most plausible theory is that 
> [bb27d5e](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/bb27d5e5c6b194a1440b8ac4e5ace68d0ee2a849)
>  ("Don't assume third iteration") has two effects on the analysis runtime:
> 
> * it inherently speeds up the analysis of loops (because some iterations are 
> skipped);
> * it slows down the analysis because it affects the inlining heuristic and 
> prevents functions from being placed on the inlining blacklist.
> 
> This would explain why just reverting that commit (which undoes both effects) 
> produces slower analysis than applying the commit under review (which undoes 
> the slowdown and keeps the speedup).

This makes sense, and I was expecting even back in the day. But I was shocked 
that sometimes intuition fails, and we didn't check the RT for that patch. Now 
that you did the work, it leaves me in a lot more relaxed situation. Thanks!

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/136720
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