Description
#60444 has introduced a severe perf regression when building/testing the conch-runtime crate.
Previously a test run would take ~5 mins, and with the latest nightly (rustc 1.36.0-nightly (372be4f36 2019-05-14)) it now takes ~82(!!) mins.
$ git clone https://github.com/ipetkov/conch-runtime.git
$ cd conch-runtime
$ cargo test --lib
# snip
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 4m 16s
$ cargo clean
$ cargo +nightly test --lib
# snip
Finished dev [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 82m 54s
Crate info
The crate offers the functionality to execute shell programs. Each piece of the grammar is represented as a node which can hold generic sub-nodes. The reasoning for this is so that the crate consumer could customize their AST with different/custom nodes, while reusing existing implementations.The shell grammar is deeply recursive. Basically each command can vary in complexity (compound commands such as case, for, or simple commands like echo foo), but is ultimately made up of a list of shell words (literals, interpolations, etc.). Because each word can contain a command substitution, the AST type is recursive (a Command<W> has a Word<C> type, which gives us Command<Word<Command<...>>).
There are two "top-level" type definitions which seek to unify the entire AST tree concretely which are basically TopLevelCommand(Command<TopLevelWord>) TopLevelWord(Word<TopLevelCommand>).
The crate also heavily uses generics and trait bounds (perhaps overly so), however, there's hopefully some low hanging fruits that can reduce the 16x slow down in performance.