First, StringMap uses llvm::HashString, which is only good for short
identifiers and really bad for large blobs of binary data like type
records. Moving to DenseMap<StringRef, TypeIndex> with some tricks for
memory allocation fixes that.
Unfortunately, that didn't buy very much performance. Profiling showed
that we spend a long time during DenseMap growth rehashing existing
entries. Also, in general, DenseMap is faster when the keys are small.
This change takes that to the logical conclusion by introducing a small
wrapper value type around a pointer to key data. The key data contains a
precomputed hash, the original record data (pointer and size), and the
type index, which is the "value" of our original map.
This reduces the time to produce llvm-as.exe and llvm-as.pdb from ~15s
on my machine to 3.5s, which is about a 4x improvement.
This isn't suitably aligned. You should use the DenseMapInfo for some pointer type instead.