A force-unrolled loop of `n` iterations. Stresses loop unrolling (unrollLoopsInModule) and the downstream SSA simplify on the unrolled body. Scaling null: the unrolled output is O(n), so ideal cost is linear in n (linear in output size).
bucket: loop_unroll · mode: target · flags: -target spirv -emit-spirv-directly
compileInner split into phase buckets (named leaves + (self) residuals) stacked across the sweep sizes — the top edge is compileInner, so you can see which phase drives the scaling.
floor-subtracted power-law fit (t − floor) = a·Nk; floor = the minimal workload (fixed per-compile cost), k the global exponent, top-2× the local high-end doubling ratio.
| N range | floor (ms) | k (work) | fit R² | t(Nmin) | t(Nmax) | top-2× |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75–600 | 10 | 1.82 | 0.995 | 51 | 1829 | 4.25× |
compileInner grows by 1778 ms across the sweep; the mutually-exclusive phase buckets below partition that growth exactly (no nested-timer double counting). × lin is the same metric as the top-level panels, per bucket: the end point vs a linear expectation anchored to the bucket's share of the minimal floor and fitted on the low-N half — 1.0 = grew exactly linearly, >1 bends up. The super-linearity lives where × lin (and k) are red.
| bucket | t@N=75 | t@N=600 | Δ ms | share | × lin | ∝Nk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| specializeModule | 10 | 497 | +487 | 27% | 4.32× | 1.88 |
| unrollLoopsInModule | 7 | 441 | +434 | 24% | 4.78× | 1.97 |
| generateOutput (self) | 7 | 247 | +240 | 13% | 4.57× | 1.88 |
| simplifyIR | 7 | 224 | +217 | 12% | 3.02× | 1.66 |
| legalizeExistentialTypeLayout | 3 | 203 | +200 | 11% | 4.98× | 2.02 |
Also growing (below top-5): legalizeResourceTypes (+200 ms, 11%).
Near-constant (≤2% of growth each): SemanticChecking (9→9 ms), generateIR (4→4 ms), linkIR (1→0 ms), performForceInlining (0→0 ms), frontEndExecute (self) (0→0 ms), performMandatoryEarlyInlining (0→0 ms), parseTranslationUnit (0→0 ms), compileInner (self) (0→0 ms).
| N | compileInner | unrollLoopsInModule | simplifyIR |
|---|---|---|---|
| 75 | 51 | 8 | 8 |
| 150 | 131 | 31 | 24 |
| 300 | 431 | 119 | 79 |
| 600 | 1829 | 564 | 286 |