All: The replacement of malloc with alloca can be done on the following analysis.
If the lifetime of an object does not stretch beyond the immediate scope. In such cases the malloc can be replaced with alloca. This increases the performance to a great extent. Inlining helps to a great extent the scope of lifetime of an object doesn't stretch the immediate scope of an object. And the scope of replacing malloc with alloca can be identified. I am wondering what phases of our optimization pipeline the malloc is replaced with alloca and what analysis is done to transform The malloc with alloca. This greatly increases the performance of the benchmarks? Is the analysis done through Escape Analysis? If yes, then what data structure is used for the abstract execution interpretation? Thanks & Regards Ajit
