Some new inferrability improvements (#422)

These became visible when working on JuliaLang/julia#37163.
Most are not in a truly performance-critical path (though of course
FrameCode optimization is not entirely uncritical, either), but one of them
is.

src/builtins.jl

@@ -80,7 +80,8 @@ function maybe_evaluate_builtin(frame, call_expr, expand::Bool)
         if !expand
             return Some{Any}(Core._apply_iterate(argswrapped...))
         end
-        @assert argswrapped[1] === Core.iterate || argswrapped[1] === Core.Compiler.iterate || argswrapped[1] === Base.iterate "cannot handle `_apply_iterate` with non iterate as first argument, got $(argswrapped[1]), $(typeof(argswrapped[1]))"
+        aw1 = argswrapped[1]::Function
+        @assert aw1 === Core.iterate || aw1 === Core.Compiler.iterate || aw1 === Base.iterate "cannot handle `_apply_iterate` with non iterate as first argument, got $(aw1), $(typeof(aw1))"
         new_expr = Expr(:call, argswrapped[2])
         popfirst!(argswrapped) # pop the iterate
         popfirst!(argswrapped) # pop the function
@@ -214,7 +215,7 @@ function maybe_evaluate_builtin(frame, call_expr, expand::Bool)
             return Some{Any}(throw(getargs(args, frame)...))
         end
     elseif f === tuple
-        return Some{Any}(ntuple(i->@lookup(frame, args[i+1]), length(args)-1))
+        return Some{Any}(ntupleany(i->@lookup(frame, args[i+1]), length(args)-1))
     elseif f === typeassert
         if nargs == 2
             return Some{Any}(typeassert(@lookup(frame, args[2]), @lookup(frame, args[3])))

src/construct.jl

@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ julia> JuliaInterpreter.prepare_args(mymethod, [mymethod, 1, 2], [:verbose=>true
 function prepare_args(@nospecialize(f), allargs, kwargs)
     if !isempty(kwargs)
         f = Core.kwfunc(f)
-        allargs = [f, namedtuple(kwargs), allargs...]
+        allargs = Any[f, namedtuple(kwargs), allargs...]
     elseif f === Core._apply
         f = to_function(allargs[2])
         allargs = append_any((allargs[2],), allargs[3:end]...)
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ function prepare_framedata(framecode, argvals::Vector{Any}, lenv::SimpleVector=e
             end
         end
         if islastva
-            locals[meth_nargs] =  (let i=meth_nargs; Some{Any}(ntuple(k->argvals[i+k-1], nargs-i+1)); end)
+            locals[meth_nargs] =  (let i=meth_nargs; Some{Any}(ntupleany(k->argvals[i+k-1], nargs-i+1)); end)
             last_reference[meth_nargs] = 1
         end
     end
@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ function enter_call_expr(expr; enter_generated = false)
     clear_caches()
     r = determine_method_for_expr(expr; enter_generated = enter_generated)
     if r !== nothing && !isa(r[1], Compiled)
-        return prepare_frame(r[1:end-1]...)
+        return prepare_frame(Base.front(r)...)
     end
     nothing
 end
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ function enter_call(@nospecialize(finfo), @nospecialize(args...); kwargs...)
     end
     r = prepare_call(f, allargs; enter_generated=enter_generated)
     if r !== nothing && !isa(r[1], Compiled)
-        return prepare_frame(r[1:end-1]...)
+        return prepare_frame(Base.front(r)...)
     end
     return nothing
 end
@@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ function extract_args(__module__, ex0)
             return Expr(:tuple, :(<:), ex0.args...)
         else
             return Expr(:tuple,
-                map(x->isexpr(x,:parameters) ? QuoteNode(x) : x, ex0.args)...)
+                mapany(x->isexpr(x,:parameters) ? QuoteNode(x) : x, ex0.args)...)
         end
     end
     if isexpr(ex0, :macrocall) # Make @edit @time 1+2 edit the macro by using the types of the *expressions*
@@ -642,14 +642,14 @@ function extract_args(__module__, ex0)
         return error("expression is not a function call or symbol")
     elseif ex.head === :call
         return Expr(:tuple,
-            map(x->isexpr(x, :parameters) ? QuoteNode(x) : x, ex.args)...)
+            mapany(x->isexpr(x, :parameters) ? QuoteNode(x) : x, ex.args)...)
     elseif ex.head === :body
         a1 = ex.args[1]
         if isexpr(a1, :call)
             a11 = a1.args[1]
             if a11 === :setindex!
                 return Expr(:tuple,
-                    map(x->isexpr(x, :parameters) ? QuoteNode(x) : x, arg.args)...)
+                    mapany(x->isexpr(x, :parameters) ? QuoteNode(x) : x, arg.args)...)
             end
         end
     end

src/interpret.jl

@@ -308,11 +308,11 @@ function evaluate_structtype(@nospecialize(recurse), frame, node)
 
     name, mod = structname(frame, node)
     supertype = lookup_or_eval(recurse, frame, node.args[4])::Type
-    ismutable = node.args[6]
-    ninit = node.args[7]
+    ismutable = node.args[6]::Bool
+    ninit = node.args[7]::Int
     newstructexpr = Expr(:struct_type, name, nothing, nothing, supertype, nothing, ismutable, ninit)
     for idx in (2, 3, 5)
-        ex = newstructexpr.args[idx] = grsvec!(copy(node.args[idx]))
+        ex = newstructexpr.args[idx] = grsvec!(copy(node.args[idx]::Expr))
         for i = 2:length(ex.args)
             inplace_lookup!(ex, i, frame)
         end
@@ -371,7 +371,9 @@ function eval_rhs(@nospecialize(recurse), frame, node::Expr)
     head = node.head
     if head === :new
         mod = moduleof(frame)
-        args = [@lookup(mod, frame, arg) for arg in node.args]
+        args = let mod=mod
+            Any[@lookup(mod, frame, arg) for arg in node.args]
+        end
         T = popfirst!(args)
         rhs = ccall(:jl_new_structv, Any, (Any, Ptr{Any}, UInt32), T, args, length(args))
         return rhs

src/optimize.jl

@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ end
 function parametric_type_to_expr(t::Type)
     t isa Core.TypeofBottom && return t
     t isa UnionAll && (t = t.body)
+    t = t::DataType
     if t <: Vararg
         return Expr(:(...), t.parameters[1])
     end
@@ -250,7 +251,7 @@ function parametric_type_to_expr(t::Type)
             isa(p, TypeVar) ? p.name :
             isa(p, DataType) && p.hasfreetypevars ? parametric_type_to_expr(p) : p
         end
-        return Expr(:curly, scopename(t.name), params...)
+        return Expr(:curly, scopename(t.name), params...)::Expr
     end
     return t
 end
@@ -260,7 +261,7 @@ function build_compiled_call!(stmt::Expr, fcall, code, idx, nargs::Int, sparams:
     TVal = evalmod == Core.Compiler ? Core.Compiler.Val : Val
     delete_idx = Int[]
     if fcall === :ccall
-        cfunc, RetType, ArgType = lookup_stmt(code.code, stmt.args[1]), stmt.args[2], stmt.args[3]
+        cfunc, RetType, ArgType = lookup_stmt(code.code, stmt.args[1]), stmt.args[2], stmt.args[3]::SimpleVector
         # The result of this is useful to have next to you when reading this code:
         # f(x, y) =  ccall(:jl_value_ptr, Ptr{Cvoid}, (Float32,Any), x, y)
         # @code_lowered f(2, 3)
@@ -270,11 +271,11 @@ function build_compiled_call!(stmt::Expr, fcall, code, idx, nargs::Int, sparams:
                 push!(args, arg)
             else
                 @assert arg isa SSAValue
-                unsafe_convert_expr = code.code[arg.id]
+                unsafe_convert_expr = code.code[arg.id]::Expr
                 push!(delete_idx, arg.id) # delete the unsafe_convert
                 cconvert_stmt = unsafe_convert_expr.args[3]
                 push!(delete_idx, cconvert_stmt.id) # delete the cconvert
-                cconvert_expr = code.code[cconvert_stmt.id]
+                cconvert_expr = code.code[cconvert_stmt.id]::Expr
                 push!(args, cconvert_expr.args[3])
             end
         end
@@ -290,11 +291,11 @@ function build_compiled_call!(stmt::Expr, fcall, code, idx, nargs::Int, sparams:
         if idxstart < idx
             while true
                 pc = step_expr!(Compiled(), frame)
-                pc == idx && break
+                pc === idx && break
                 pc === nothing && error("this should never happen")
             end
         end
-        cfunc, RetType, ArgType = @lookup(frame, stmt.args[2]), @lookup(frame, stmt.args[3]), @lookup(frame, stmt.args[4])
+        cfunc, RetType, ArgType = @lookup(frame, stmt.args[2]), @lookup(frame, stmt.args[3]), @lookup(frame, stmt.args[4])::Type{<:Tuple}
         args = stmt.args[5:end]
     end
     dynamic_ccall = false
@@ -320,7 +321,7 @@ function build_compiled_call!(stmt::Expr, fcall, code, idx, nargs::Int, sparams:
     argnames = Any[Symbol(:arg, i) for i = 1:nargs]
     if f === nothing
         if fcall == :ccall
-            ArgType = Expr(:tuple, [parametric_type_to_expr(t) for t in ArgType]...)
+            ArgType = Expr(:tuple, Any[parametric_type_to_expr(t) for t in ArgType]...)
         end
         RetType = parametric_type_to_expr(RetType)
         # #285: test whether we can evaluate an type constraints on parametric expressions

src/packagedef.jl

@@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ else
     mapany(f, itr) = map!(f, Vector{Any}(undef, length(itr)::Int), itr)  # convenient for Expr.args
 end
 
+if isdefined(Base, :ntupleany)
+    const ntupleany = Base.ntupleany
+else
+    @noinline function ntupleany(f, n)
+        (n >= 0) || throw(ArgumentError(string("tuple length should be ≥ 0, got ", n)))
+        (Any[f(i) for i = 1:n]...,)
+    end
+end
+
 include("types.jl")
 include("utils.jl")
 include("construct.jl")