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This lazily initializes the taskgroup structs for spawn_unlinked tasks. If such a task never spawns another task linked to it (or a descendant of it), its taskgroup is simply never initialized at all. Also if an unlinked task spawns another unlinked task, neither of them will need to initialize their taskgroups. This works for the main task too.

I benchmarked this with the following test case and observed a 21% speedup (average over 4 runs: 7.85 sec -> 6.20 sec, 2.5 GHz) 11% speedup, see comment below.

use std::task;
use std::cell::Cell;
use std::rt::comm;

static NUM: uint = 1024*256;

fn run(f: ~fn()) {
    let mut t = task::task();
    t.unlinked();
    t.spawn(f);
}

fn main() {
    do NUM.times {
        let (p,c) = comm::oneshot();
        let c = Cell::new(c);
        do run { c.take().send(()); }
        p.recv();
    }
}

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bblum commented Aug 5, 2013

Ah, I forgot to rustc -O when compiling the benchmark program. Bring that figure down to 11%: 6.35 seconds to 5.65 seconds.

bors added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 6, 2013
This lazily initializes the taskgroup structs for ```spawn_unlinked``` tasks. If such a task never spawns another task linked to it (or a descendant of it), its taskgroup is simply never initialized at all. Also if an unlinked task spawns another unlinked task, neither of them will need to initialize their taskgroups. This works for the main task too.

I benchmarked this with the following test case and observed a ~~21% speedup (average over 4 runs: 7.85 sec -> 6.20 sec, 2.5 GHz)~~ 11% speedup, see comment below.
```
use std::task;
use std::cell::Cell;
use std::rt::comm;

static NUM: uint = 1024*256;

fn run(f: ~fn()) {
    let mut t = task::task();
    t.unlinked();
    t.spawn(f);
}

fn main() {
    do NUM.times {
        let (p,c) = comm::oneshot();
        let c = Cell::new(c);
        do run { c.take().send(()); }
        p.recv();
    }
}
```
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@bors bors merged commit 1f95bd7 into rust-lang:master Aug 6, 2013
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