don't translate items when monomorphizing foreign-ABI functions #16359
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This code produces an ICE:
```rust
#![crate_type = "rlib"]
fn main() {
if true { return }
// remaining code is unreachable
match () {
() => { static MAGIC: uint = 0; }
}
}
```
([playpen](http://is.gd/iwOISB))
The error is "encode_symbol: id not found 18", where 18 is the `NodeId` of the declaration of `MAGIC`. The problem is that `rustc` tries to emit metadata for `MAGIC`, but some of the information is missing because `MAGIC` never gets translated by `trans_item` - the entire body of the `match` gets skipped because the `match` itself is unreachable.
This branch simplifies the handling of inner items by always processing them using the `trans_item` visitor, instead of sometimes using the visitor and sometimes waiting until `trans_stmt` encounters the item. This fixes the ICE by making the translation of the item no longer depend on the declaration being reachable code. This branch also reverts #16059 and #16359, since the new change to item translation fixes the same problems as those but is simpler.
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This branch adds support for running LLVM optimization and codegen on different parts of a crate in parallel. Instead of translating the crate into a single LLVM compilation unit, `rustc` now distributes items in the crate among several compilation units, and spawns worker threads to optimize and codegen each compilation unit independently. This improves compile times on multicore machines, at the cost of worse performance in the compiled code. The intent is to speed up build times during development without sacrificing too much optimization. On the machine I tested this on, `librustc` build time with `-O` went from 265 seconds (master branch, single-threaded) to 115s (this branch, with 4 threads), a speedup of 2.3x. For comparison, the build time without `-O` was 90s (single-threaded). Bootstrapping `rustc` using 4 threads gets a 1.6x speedup over the default settings (870s vs. 1380s), and building `librustc` with the resulting stage2 compiler takes 1.3x as long as the master branch (44s vs. 55s, single threaded, ignoring time spent in LLVM codegen). The user-visible changes from this branch are two new codegen flags: * `-C codegen-units=N`: Distribute items across `N` compilation units. * `-C codegen-threads=N`: Spawn `N` worker threads for running optimization and codegen. (It is possible to set `codegen-threads` larger than `codegen-units`, but this is not very useful.) Internal changes to the compiler are described in detail on the individual commit messages. Note: The first commit on this branch is copied from #16359, which this branch depends on. r? @nick29581
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Extend the changes from #16059 to the new generic foreign functions introduced by #15831.