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    cmd/compile: change ODOT and friends to use Sym, not Right · 5f525ca6
    Ian Lance Taylor authored
    The Node type ODOT and its variants all represent a selector, with a
    simple name to the right of the dot.  Before this change this was
    represented by using an ONAME Node in the Right field.  This ONAME node
    served no useful purpose.  This CL changes these Node types to store the
    symbol in the Sym field instead, thus not requiring allocating a Node
    for each selector.
    
    When compiling x/tools/go/types this CL eliminates nearly 5000 calls to
    newname and reduces the total number of Nodes allocated by about 6.6%.
    It seems to cut compilation time by 1 to 2 percent.
    
    Getting this right was somewhat subtle, and I added two dubious changes
    to produce the exact same output as before.  One is to ishairy in
    inl.go: the ONAME node increased the cost of ODOT and friends by 1, and
    I retained that, although really ODOT is not more expensive than any
    other node.  The other is to varexpr in walk.go: because the ONAME in
    the Right field of an ODOT has no class, varexpr would always return
    false for an ODOT, although in fact for some ODOT's it seemingly ought
    to return true; I added an && false for now.  I will send separate CLs,
    that will break toolstash -cmp, to clean these up.
    
    This CL passes toolstash -cmp.
    
    Change-Id: I4af8a10cc59078c436130ce472f25abc3a9b2f80
    Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/20890
    TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarBrad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
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