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mercury/tests/hard_coded/pretty_printer_stress_test.exp
Zoltan Somogyi fa14feedf0 Speed up pretty_printing a *lot*.
library/pretty_printer.m:
    Replace the indent_stack data structure with one that

    - can represent deep indentation in a compact data structure,
      as long as that indentation consists only of standard indents, and

    - can tell you how many code points the current indent stack consists of
      *without* counting the code points in all the individual indent pieces
      every time.

    This yields a big speedup, because the code used to spend a very large
    fraction of its time (between 40 and 50%) just counting the code points
    in indentation. This was on stress test data which had very deep
    indentation, but the cost would have been substantial even on moderately
    indented docs.

    Now that the indent_stack can represent more than one level of indentation
    in one data structure, print up to 30 levels of standard indentation
    with just one call to stream.put. By amortizing the overheads of stream.put
    over a must larger part of the output, this also yields a significant
    speedup.

    Move the indent_stack type and its (significantly expanded) set of
    operations to after the code that outputs docs, since it is just an
    implementation detail (though as explained above, an important detail).

tests/hard_coded/pretty_printer_stress_test.{m,data,exp}:
    A stress test for the pretty_printer whose profiling lead to the
    identification of the performance problems fixed above.

tests/hard_coded/Mmakefile:
    Enable the new test case, now that it is not too expensive to run
    on every bootcheck.
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