[LlvmIrGenerator] ~4x faster type map generation

src/Microsoft.Android.Build.BaseTasks/Files.cs

@@ -595,21 +595,9 @@ public static string ToHexString (byte[] hash)
 
 		public static string ToHexString (ReadOnlySpan<byte> hash)
 		{
-			const int MaxStackCharLength = 128;
-			int charLength = hash.Length * 2;
-			Span<char> chars = charLength <= MaxStackCharLength
-				? stackalloc char[charLength]
-				: new char[charLength];
-			for (int i = 0, j = 0; i < hash.Length; i += 1, j += 2) {
-				byte b = hash [i];
-				chars [j] = GetHexValue (b / 16);
-				chars [j + 1] = GetHexValue (b % 16);
-			}
-			return ((ReadOnlySpan<char>) chars).ToString ();
+			return HexUtilities.ToHexString (hash);
 		}
 
-		static char GetHexValue (int i) => (char) (i < 10 ? i + 48 : i - 10 + 65);
-
 		public static void DeleteFile (string filename, object log)
 		{
 			try {

src/Microsoft.Android.Build.BaseTasks/HexUtilities.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+#nullable enable
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+
+namespace Microsoft.Android.Build.Tasks
+{
+	/// <summary>
+	/// Allocation-free helpers for rendering bytes as hexadecimal.
+	/// </summary>
+	/// <remarks>
+	/// This file is also linked into <c>Microsoft.Android.Sdk.TrimmableTypeMap</c>, which
+	/// deliberately does not reference <c>Microsoft.Android.Build.BaseTasks</c> (that would drag
+	/// Microsoft.Build.*, LibZipSharp, K4os.LZ4 and Mono.Unix into it).  Only the copy compiled
+	/// into <c>Microsoft.Android.Build.BaseTasks</c> is <c>public</c>; the linked copy stays
+	/// <c>internal</c>, otherwise <c>Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks</c> — which references both
+	/// assemblies — fails with <c>CS0433</c>.
+	/// </remarks>
+#if MICROSOFT_ANDROID_BUILD_BASETASKS
+	public
+#endif
+	static class HexUtilities
+	{
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Convert a value in the <c>0..15</c> range to its hexadecimal digit.
+		/// </summary>
+		public static char GetHexValue (int value, bool upperCase = true)
+		{
+			if (value < 10)
+				return (char)(value + '0');
+			return (char)(value - 10 + (upperCase ? 'A' : 'a'));
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Write <paramref name="value"/> into <paramref name="destination"/> as exactly two
+		/// hexadecimal digits.
+		/// </summary>
+		public static void WriteHex (Span<char> destination, byte value, bool upperCase = true)
+		{
+			destination [0] = GetHexValue (value >> 4, upperCase);
+			destination [1] = GetHexValue (value & 0x0f, upperCase);
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Write <paramref name="value"/> to <paramref name="writer"/> as exactly two hexadecimal
+		/// digits, without allocating.
+		/// </summary>
+		public static void WriteHex (TextWriter writer, byte value, bool upperCase = true)
+		{
+			if (writer == null)
+				throw new ArgumentNullException (nameof (writer));
+
+			writer.Write (GetHexValue (value >> 4, upperCase));
+			writer.Write (GetHexValue (value & 0x0f, upperCase));
+		}
+
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Convert <paramref name="bytes"/> to a hexadecimal string, without allocating
+		/// intermediate strings.
+		/// </summary>
+		public static string ToHexString (ReadOnlySpan<byte> bytes, bool upperCase = true)
+		{
+			const int MaxStackCharLength = 128;
+
+			int charLength = bytes.Length * 2;
+			Span<char> chars = charLength <= MaxStackCharLength
+				? stackalloc char[charLength]
+				: new char[charLength];
+			for (int i = 0, j = 0; i < bytes.Length; i += 1, j += 2) {
+				WriteHex (chars.Slice (j, 2), bytes [i], upperCase);
+			}
+			return ((ReadOnlySpan<char>) chars).ToString ();
+		}
+	}
+}

src/Microsoft.Android.Build.BaseTasks/Microsoft.Android.Build.BaseTasks.csproj

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
     <LangVersion>latest</LangVersion>
     <Nullable>enable</Nullable>
     <WarningsAsErrors>nullable</WarningsAsErrors>
+    <!-- Makes the shared HexUtilities.cs `public` here; it stays `internal` where it is linked in. -->
+    <DefineConstants>$(DefineConstants);MICROSOFT_ANDROID_BUILD_BASETASKS</DefineConstants>
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>

src/Microsoft.Android.Sdk.TrimmableTypeMap/Microsoft.Android.Sdk.TrimmableTypeMap.csproj

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 
   <ItemGroup>
     <Compile Include="..\..\src-ThirdParty\System.Runtime.CompilerServices\CompilerFeaturePolyfills.cs" Link="CompilerFeaturePolyfills.cs" />
+    <Compile Include="..\Microsoft.Android.Build.BaseTasks\HexUtilities.cs" Link="HexUtilities.cs" />
     <Compile Include="..\..\external\Java.Interop\src\Java.Interop.Tools.JavaCallableWrappers\Java.Interop.Tools.JavaCallableWrappers\Crc64Helper.cs" Link="Crc64Helper.cs" />
     <Compile Include="..\..\external\Java.Interop\src\Java.Interop.Tools.JavaCallableWrappers\Java.Interop.Tools.JavaCallableWrappers\Crc64.Table.cs" Link="Crc64.Table.cs" />
   </ItemGroup>

src/Microsoft.Android.Sdk.TrimmableTypeMap/Scanner/ScannerHashingHelper.cs

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 using System.Buffers;
 using System.Buffers.Binary;
 using Java.Interop.Tools.JavaCallableWrappers;
+using Microsoft.Android.Build.Tasks;
 
 namespace Microsoft.Android.Sdk.TrimmableTypeMap;
 
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ internal static string ToLegacyCrc64 (string ns, string assemblyName)
 			Crc64Helper.HashCore (rented, 0, bytesWritten, ref crc, ref length);
 			Span<byte> hash = stackalloc byte [8];
 			BinaryPrimitives.WriteUInt64LittleEndian (hash, crc ^ length);
-			return ToHexString (hash);
+			return HexUtilities.ToHexString (hash, upperCase: false);
 		} finally {
 			ArrayPool<byte>.Shared.Return (rented);
 		}
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ internal static string ToCrc64 (string ns, string assemblyName)
 		System.IO.Hashing.Crc64.Hash (utf8Buffer.Slice (0, bytesWritten), hash);
 		ulong hashValue = BinaryPrimitives.ReadUInt64LittleEndian (hash);
 		BinaryPrimitives.WriteUInt64LittleEndian (hash, hashValue ^ (ulong) bytesWritten);
-		return ToHexString (hash);
+		return HexUtilities.ToHexString (hash, upperCase: false);
 	}
 
 	static int GetNamespaceAssemblyUtf8ByteCount (string ns, string assemblyName)
@@ -62,23 +63,4 @@ static unsafe int GetNamespaceAssemblyUtf8Bytes (string ns, string assemblyName,
 
 		return bytesWritten;
 	}
-
-	static string ToHexString (ReadOnlySpan<byte> hash)
-	{
-		const int maxStackCharLength = 128;
-		int charLength = hash.Length * 2;
-		Span<char> chars = charLength <= maxStackCharLength
-			? stackalloc char [charLength]
-			: new char [charLength];
-
-		for (int i = 0, j = 0; i < hash.Length; i += 1, j += 2) {
-			byte b = hash [i];
-			chars [j] = GetHexValue (b / 16);
-			chars [j + 1] = GetHexValue (b % 16);
-		}
-
-		return ((ReadOnlySpan<char>) chars).ToString ();
-	}
-
-	static char GetHexValue (int value) => (char) (value < 10 ? value + '0' : value - 10 + 'a');
 }

src/Xamarin.Android.Build.Tasks/Utilities/LlvmIrGenerator/LlvmIrGenerator.cs

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 using System.Reflection;
 using System.Text;
 
+using Microsoft.Android.Build.Tasks;
 using Xamarin.Android.Tools;
 
 namespace Xamarin.Android.Tasks.LLVMIR
@@ -470,6 +471,23 @@ void WriteStructureType (GeneratorWriteContext context, StructureInstance si, ou
 
 		void WriteType (GeneratorWriteContext context, Type type, object? value, out LlvmTypeInfo typeInfo, LlvmIrGlobalVariable? globalVariable = null)
 		{
+			// Fast path: a basic scalar type (`byte`, `uint`, ...) can never be a structure instance,
+			// an array or a string blob, so skip the reflection-heavy probing below.  Arrays and string
+			// blobs write one element at a time, so this runs millions of times for a typical
+			// application and `Type.IsPrimitive`/`Type.IsArray` dominate the generator otherwise.
+			if (basicTypeMap.ContainsKey (type)) {
+				string basicIRType = GetIRType (context, type, out ulong basicSize, out bool basicIsPointer);
+				typeInfo = new LlvmTypeInfo (
+					isPointer: basicIsPointer,
+					isAggregate: false,
+					isStructure: false,
+					size: basicSize,
+					maxFieldAlignment: basicSize
+				);
+				context.Output.Write (basicIRType);
+				return;
+			}
+
 			if (IsStructureInstance (type)) {
 				if (value == null) {
 					throw new ArgumentException ($"must not be null for structure instances ({type})", nameof (value));
@@ -947,10 +965,12 @@ void WriteCommaWithStride (ulong counter)
 
 			void WriteByteTypeAndValue (byte v)
 			{
-				WriteType (context, elementType, v, out _);
-
-				context.Output.Write (' ');
-				WriteValue (context, elementType, v);
+				// This is by far the hottest path in the generator: a hello world MAUI app writes
+				// ~3.6 million bytes here.  WriteType()/WriteValue() would box the byte and allocate a
+				// handful of strings per element, so write the (always identical) type and the two hex
+				// digits directly.
+				context.Output.Write ("i8 u0x");
+				HexUtilities.WriteHex (context.Output, v, upperCase: false);
 			}
 		}
 

tests/Microsoft.Android.Build.BaseTasks-Tests/HexUtilitiesTests.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+using System;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Linq;
+using Microsoft.Android.Build.Tasks;
+using NUnit.Framework;
+
+namespace Microsoft.Android.Build.BaseTasks.Tests
+{
+	[TestFixture]
+	public class HexUtilitiesTests
+	{
+		[Test]
+		public void GetHexValue_UpperCase ()
+		{
+			const string expected = "0123456789ABCDEF";
+			for (int i = 0; i < expected.Length; i++) {
+				Assert.AreEqual (expected [i], HexUtilities.GetHexValue (i), $"Mismatch at {i}.");
+			}
+		}
+
+		[Test]
+		public void GetHexValue_LowerCase ()
+		{
+			const string expected = "0123456789abcdef";
+			for (int i = 0; i < expected.Length; i++) {
+				Assert.AreEqual (expected [i], HexUtilities.GetHexValue (i, upperCase: false), $"Mismatch at {i}.");
+			}
+		}
+
+		[Test]
+		public void GetHexValue_DefaultsToUpperCase ()
+		{
+			Assert.AreEqual ('A', HexUtilities.GetHexValue (10));
+		}
+
+		[Test]
+		public void WriteHex_Span_UpperCase ()
+		{
+			Span<char> chars = stackalloc char [2];
+			HexUtilities.WriteHex (chars, 0xab);
+			Assert.AreEqual ("AB", chars.ToString ());
+		}
+
+		[Test]
+		public void WriteHex_Span_LowerCase ()
+		{
+			Span<char> chars = stackalloc char [2];
+			HexUtilities.WriteHex (chars, 0xab, upperCase: false);
+			Assert.AreEqual ("ab", chars.ToString ());
+		}
+
+		[Test]
+		public void WriteHex_Span_WritesExactlyTwoChars ()
+		{
+			Span<char> chars = stackalloc char [4];
+			chars.Fill ('_');
+			HexUtilities.WriteHex (chars.Slice (1, 2), 0x0f);
+			Assert.AreEqual ("_0F_", chars.ToString ());
+		}
+
+		[Test]
+		public void WriteHex_Span_EveryByteValue ()
+		{
+			Span<char> chars = stackalloc char [2];
+			for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
+				HexUtilities.WriteHex (chars, (byte) i);
+				Assert.AreEqual (i.ToString ("X2"), chars.ToString (), $"Mismatch at {i}.");
+			}
+		}
+
+		[Test]
+		public void WriteHex_TextWriter_UpperCase ()
+		{
+			var writer = new StringWriter ();
+			HexUtilities.WriteHex (writer, 0x00);
+			HexUtilities.WriteHex (writer, 0x0f);
+			HexUtilities.WriteHex (writer, 0xff);
+			Assert.AreEqual ("000FFF", writer.ToString ());
+		}
+
+		[Test]
+		public void WriteHex_TextWriter_LowerCase ()
+		{
+			var writer = new StringWriter ();
+			HexUtilities.WriteHex (writer, 0x00, upperCase: false);
+			HexUtilities.WriteHex (writer, 0x0f, upperCase: false);
+			HexUtilities.WriteHex (writer, 0xff, upperCase: false);
+			Assert.AreEqual ("000fff", writer.ToString ());
+		}
+
+		[Test]
+		public void WriteHex_TextWriter_EveryByteValue ()
+		{
+			var writer = new StringWriter ();
+			for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
+				HexUtilities.WriteHex (writer, (byte) i);
+			}
+			var expected = string.Concat (Enumerable.Range (0, 256).Select (i => i.ToString ("X2")));
+			Assert.AreEqual (expected, writer.ToString ());
+		}
+
+		[Test]
+		public void WriteHex_TextWriter_NullThrows ()
+		{
+			Assert.Throws<ArgumentNullException> (() => HexUtilities.WriteHex (writer: null, value: 0x00));
+		}
+
+		[Test]
+		public void ToHexString_Empty ()
+		{
+			Assert.AreEqual ("", HexUtilities.ToHexString (ReadOnlySpan<byte>.Empty));
+		}
+
+		[Test]
+		public void ToHexString_UpperCase ()
+		{
+			var bytes = new byte [] { 0x00, 0x01, 0x0f, 0x10, 0x7f, 0x80, 0xab, 0xff };
+			Assert.AreEqual ("00010F107F80ABFF", HexUtilities.ToHexString (bytes));
+		}
+
+		[Test]
+		public void ToHexString_LowerCase ()
+		{
+			var bytes = new byte [] { 0x00, 0x01, 0x0f, 0x10, 0x7f, 0x80, 0xab, 0xff };
+			Assert.AreEqual ("00010f107f80abff", HexUtilities.ToHexString (bytes, upperCase: false));
+		}
+
+		[Test]
+		public void ToHexString_EveryByteValue ()
+		{
+			var bytes = Enumerable.Range (0, 256).Select (i => (byte) i).ToArray ();
+			var expected = BitConverter.ToString (bytes).Replace ("-", "");
+			Assert.AreEqual (expected, HexUtilities.ToHexString (bytes));
+			Assert.AreEqual (expected.ToLowerInvariant (), HexUtilities.ToHexString (bytes, upperCase: false));
+		}
+
+		// The implementation stackallocs up to 128 chars (64 bytes) and heap allocates beyond that
+		[TestCase (63)]
+		[TestCase (64)]
+		[TestCase (65)]
+		[TestCase (1024)]
+		public void ToHexString_CrossesStackallocThreshold (int length)
+		{
+			var bytes = new byte [length];
+			new Random (42).NextBytes (bytes);
+			var expected = BitConverter.ToString (bytes).Replace ("-", "");
+			Assert.AreEqual (expected, HexUtilities.ToHexString (bytes));
+		}
+	}
+}