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David Chase e779bfa5d2 cmd/compile: better modeling of escape across loop levels
Brief background on "why heap allocate".  Things can be
forced to the heap for the following reasons:

1) address published, hence lifetime unknown.
2) size unknown/too large, cannot be stack allocated
3) multiplicity unknown/too large, cannot be stack allocated
4) reachable from heap (not necessarily published)

The bug here is a case of failing to enforce 4) when an
object Y was reachable from a heap allocation X forced
because of 3).  It was found in the case of a closure
allocated within a loop (X) and assigned to a variable
outside the loop (multiplicity unknown) where the closure
also captured a map (Y) declared outside the loop (reachable
from heap). Note the variable declared outside the loop (Y)
is not published, has known size, and known multiplicity
(one). The only reason for heap allocation is that it was
reached from a heap allocated item (X), but because that was
not forced by publication, it has to be tracked by loop
level, but escape-loop level was not tracked and thus a bug
results.

The fix is that when a heap allocation is newly discovered,
use its looplevel as the minimum loop level for downstream
escape flooding.

Every attempt to generalize this bug to X-in-loop-
references-Y-outside loop succeeded, so the fix was aimed
to be general.  Anywhere that loop level forces heap
allocation, the loop level is tracked.  This is not yet
tested for all possible X and Y, but it is correctness-
conservative and because it caused only one trivial
regression in the escape tests, it is probably also
performance-conservative.

The new test checks the following:
1) in the map case, that if fn escapes, so does the map.
2) in the map case, if fn does not escape, neither does the map.
3) in the &x case, that if fn escapes, so does &x.
4) in the &x case, if fn does not escape, neither does &x.

Fixes #13799.

Change-Id: Ie280bef2bb86ec869c7c206789d0b68f080c3fdb
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/18234
Run-TryBot: David Chase <drchase@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2016-01-13 04:01:00 +00:00
David Chase f7a39a54e9 cmd/compile: escape analysis, don't always escape variadic args
Turns out the summary information for the ... args was
already correctly computed, all that lacked was to make
use of it and correct tests that documented our prior
deficiencies.

Fixes #12006

Change-Id: Ie8adfab7547f179391d470679598f0904aabf9f7
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/15200
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
2015-10-04 20:45:35 +00:00
Russ Cox 66130907d1 cmd/compile: handle copy in escape analysis
Somehow we missed this!
Fixes #11387.

Change-Id: Ida08fe52eff7da2ef7765b4cf35a39a301420c43
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/11460
Reviewed-by: David Chase <drchase@google.com>
2015-06-24 22:22:55 +00:00
Russ Cox fd2154f906 cmd/compile: move Node.Curfn into both Node.Func and Node.Name
$ sizeof -p cmd/compile/internal/gc Node
Node 168
$

Change-Id: If624a2d72ec04ef30a1bc7ce76c0d61a526d8a37
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10532
Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
2015-06-03 20:09:52 +00:00
David Chase a21cf5b6a2 cmd/internal/gc: extend escape analysis to pointers in slices
Modified esc.go to allow slice literals (before append)
to be non-escaping.  Modified tests to account for changes
in escape behavior and to also test the two cases that
were previously not tested.

Also minor cleanups to debug-printing within esc.go

Allocation stats for running compiler
( cd src/html/template;
  for i in {1..5} ; do
     go tool 6g -memprofile=testzz.${i}.prof  -memprofilerate=1 *.go ;
     go tool pprof -alloc_objects -text  testzz.${i}.prof ;
     done ; )
before about 86k allocations
after  about 83k allocations

Fixes #8972

Change-Id: Ib61dd70dc74adb40d6f6fdda6eaa4bf7d83481de
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/10118
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2015-05-18 15:34:39 +00:00
David Chase 7fbb1b36c3 cmd/internal/gc: improve flow of input params to output params
This includes the following information in the per-function summary:

outK = paramJ   encoded in outK bits for paramJ
outK = *paramJ  encoded in outK bits for paramJ
heap = paramJ   EscHeap
heap = *paramJ  EscContentEscapes

Note that (currently) if the address of a parameter is taken and
returned, necessarily a heap allocation occurred to contain that
reference, and the heap can never refer to stack, therefore the
parameter and everything downstream from it escapes to the heap.

The per-function summary information now has a tuneable number of bits
(2 is probably noticeably better than 1, 3 is likely overkill, but it
is now easy to check and the -m debugging output includes information
that allows you to figure out if more would be better.)

A new test was  added to check pointer flow through struct-typed and
*struct-typed parameters and returns; some of these are sensitive to
the number of summary bits, and ought to yield better results with a
more competent escape analysis algorithm.  Another new test checks
(some) correctness with array parameters, results, and operations.

The old analysis inferred a piece of plan9 runtime was non-escaping by
counteracting overconservative analysis with buggy analysis; with the
bug fixed, the result was too conservative (and it's not easy to fix
in this framework) so the source code was tweaked to get the desired
result.  A test was added against the discovered bug.

The escape analysis was further improved splitting the "level" into
3 parts, one tracking the conventional "level" and the other two
computing the highest-level-suffix-from-copy, which is used to
generally model the cancelling effect of indirection applied to
address-of.

With the improved escape analysis enabled, it was necessary to
modify one of the runtime tests because it now attempts to allocate
too much on the (small, fixed-size) G0 (system) stack and this
failed the test.

Compiling src/std after touching src/runtime/*.go with -m logging
turned on shows 420 fewer heap allocation sites (10538 vs 10968).

Profiling allocations in src/html/template with
for i in {1..5} ;
  do go tool 6g -memprofile=mastx.${i}.prof  -memprofilerate=1 *.go;
  go tool pprof -alloc_objects -text  mastx.${i}.prof ;
done

showed a 15% reduction in allocations performed by the compiler.

Update #3753
Update #4720
Fixes #10466

Change-Id: I0fd97d5f5ac527b45f49e2218d158a6e89951432
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8202
Run-TryBot: David Chase <drchase@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2015-05-01 13:47:20 +00:00
Dmitry Vyukov 7647741246 test: add -update_errors flag to run script
The flag updates error annotations in test files from actual compiler output.
This is useful when doing compiler changes that add/remove/change lots of errors,
or when adding lots of new tests.
Also I noticed at least 2 cases where annotation were sub-optimal:
1. The annotation was "leaking param p" when the actual error is
"leaking param p to result ~r1".
2. The annotation was "leaking param m" when the actual errors
are "leaking param m" and "leaking param mv1".

For now it works only for errorcheck mode.

Also, apply the update to escape and liveness tests.
Some files have gccgo-specific errors of the form "gc error|gccgo error",
so it is risky to run update on all files. Gccgo-specific error
does not necessary contain '|', it can be just truncated.

Change-Id: Iaaae767f859dcb8321a8cb4970b2b70969e8a345
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/5310
Run-TryBot: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@golang.org>
2015-04-10 11:33:42 +00:00
Dmitry Vyukov 878a86a129 cmd/gc: fix escape analysis of closures
Fixes #10353

See test/escape2.go:issue10353. Previously new(int) did not escape to heap,
and so heap-allcated closure was referencing a stack var. This breaks
the invariant that heap must not contain pointers to stack.

Look at the following program:

package main

func main() {
	foo(new(int))
	bar(new(int))
}

func foo(x *int) func() {
	return func() {
		println(*x)
	}
}

// Models what foo effectively does.
func bar(x *int) *C {
	return &C{x}
}

type C struct {
	x *int
}

Without this patch escape analysis works as follows:

$ go build -gcflags="-m -m -m -l" esc.go
escflood:1: dst ~r1 scope:foo[0]
escwalk: level:0 depth:0  func literal( l(9) f(1) esc(no) ld(1)) scope:foo[1]
/tmp/live2.go:9: func literal escapes to heap
escwalk: level:0 depth:1 	 x( l(8) class(PPARAM) f(1) esc(no) ld(1)) scope:foo[1]
/tmp/live2.go:8: leaking param: x to result ~r1

escflood:2: dst ~r1 scope:bar[0]
escwalk: level:0 depth:0  &C literal( l(15) esc(no) ld(1)) scope:bar[1]
/tmp/live2.go:15: &C literal escapes to heap
escwalk: level:-1 depth:1 	 &C literal( l(15)) scope:bar[0]
escwalk: level:-1 depth:2 		 x( l(14) class(PPARAM) f(1) esc(no) ld(1)) scope:bar[1]
/tmp/live2.go:14: leaking param: x

/tmp/live2.go:5: new(int) escapes to heap
/tmp/live2.go:4: main new(int) does not escape

new(int) does not escape while being captured by the closure.
With this patch escape analysis of foo and bar works similarly:

$ go build -gcflags="-m -m -m -l" esc.go
escflood:1: dst ~r1 scope:foo[0]
escwalk: level:0 depth:0  &(func literal)( l(9)) scope:foo[0]
escwalk: level:-1 depth:1 	 func literal( l(9) f(1) esc(no) ld(1)) scope:foo[1]
/tmp/live2.go:9: func literal escapes to heap
escwalk: level:-1 depth:2 		 x( l(8) class(PPARAM) f(1) esc(no) ld(1)) scope:foo[1]
/tmp/live2.go:8: leaking param: x

escflood:2: dst ~r1 scope:bar[0]
escwalk: level:0 depth:0  &C literal( l(15) esc(no) ld(1)) scope:bar[1]
/tmp/live2.go:15: &C literal escapes to heap
escwalk: level:-1 depth:1 	 &C literal( l(15)) scope:bar[0]
escwalk: level:-1 depth:2 		 x( l(14) class(PPARAM) f(1) esc(no) ld(1)) scope:bar[1]
/tmp/live2.go:14: leaking param: x

/tmp/live2.go:4: new(int) escapes to heap
/tmp/live2.go:5: new(int) escapes to heap

Change-Id: Ifd14b7ae3fc11820e3b5eb31eb07f35a22ed0932
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/8408
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
2015-04-09 09:56:27 +00:00
Dmitry Vyukov edcc062bdc test: add tests for escape analysis of interface conversions
The false positives (var incorrectly escapes) are marked with BAD.

Change-Id: If64fabb6ea96de44a1177d9ab12e2ccc579fe0c4
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/5294
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
2015-03-28 16:15:27 +00:00
Dmitry Vyukov 1f5617e37c test: add additional ... tests for escape analysis
False positives (var incorrectly escapes) are marked with BAD.

Change-Id: I646a29ffe24d963c63db09cba81dbc101d7c7242
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/5296
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
2015-03-28 13:07:19 +00:00
Chris Manghane 77d7771a82 cmd/internal/gc: omit non-explicit capacity in errors with map/chan make
Fixes #9083.

Change-Id: Ifbdebafb39a73a1dacf7e67171e8e88028d1f10b
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/1219
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Chris Manghane <cmang@golang.org>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org>
2015-02-25 20:04:22 +00:00
Dmitry Vyukov b3be360f16 cmd/gc: allocate non-escaping maps on stack
Extend escape analysis to make(map[k]v).
If it does not escape, allocate temp buffer for hmap and one bucket on stack.

There are 75 cases of non-escaping maps in std lib.

benchmark                                    old allocs     new allocs     delta
BenchmarkConcurrentStmtQuery                 16161          15161          -6.19%
BenchmarkConcurrentTxQuery                   17658          16658          -5.66%
BenchmarkConcurrentTxStmtQuery               16157          15156          -6.20%
BenchmarkConcurrentRandom                    13637          13114          -3.84%
BenchmarkManyConcurrentQueries               22             20             -9.09%
BenchmarkDecodeComplex128Slice               250            188            -24.80%
BenchmarkDecodeFloat64Slice                  250            188            -24.80%
BenchmarkDecodeInt32Slice                    250            188            -24.80%
BenchmarkDecodeStringSlice                   2250           2188           -2.76%
BenchmarkNewEmptyMap                         1              0              -100.00%
BenchmarkNewSmallMap                         2              0              -100.00%

benchmark                old ns/op     new ns/op     delta
BenchmarkNewEmptyMap     124           55.7          -55.08%
BenchmarkNewSmallMap     317           148           -53.31%

benchmark                old allocs     new allocs     delta
BenchmarkNewEmptyMap     1              0              -100.00%
BenchmarkNewSmallMap     2              0              -100.00%

benchmark                old bytes     new bytes     delta
BenchmarkNewEmptyMap     48            0             -100.00%
BenchmarkNewSmallMap     192           0             -100.00%

Fixes #5449

Change-Id: I24fa66f949d2f138885d9e66a0d160240dc9e8fa
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3508
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Run-TryBot: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
2015-02-12 09:53:52 +00:00
Dmitry Vyukov 9568126f35 cmd/gc: allocate buffers for non-escaping string conversions on stack
Support the following conversions in escape analysis:
[]rune("foo")
[]byte("foo")
string([]rune{})

If the result does not escape, allocate temp buffer on stack
and pass it to runtime functions.

Change-Id: I1d075907eab8b0109ad7ad1878104b02b3d5c690
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3590
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2015-02-12 08:29:53 +00:00
Dmitry Vyukov 0e80b2e082 cmd/gc: capture variables by value
Language specification says that variables are captured by reference.
And that is what gc compiler does. However, in lots of cases it is
possible to capture variables by value under the hood without
affecting visible behavior of programs. For example, consider
the following typical pattern:

	func (o *Obj) requestMany(urls []string) []Result {
		wg := new(sync.WaitGroup)
		wg.Add(len(urls))
		res := make([]Result, len(urls))
		for i := range urls {
			i := i
			go func() {
				res[i] = o.requestOne(urls[i])
				wg.Done()
			}()
		}
		wg.Wait()
		return res
	}

Currently o, wg, res, and i are captured by reference causing 3+len(urls)
allocations (e.g. PPARAM o is promoted to PPARAMREF and moved to heap).
But all of them can be captured by value without changing behavior.

This change implements simple strategy for capturing by value:
if a captured variable is not addrtaken and never assigned to,
then it is captured by value (it is effectively const).
This simple strategy turned out to be very effective:
~80% of all captures in std lib are turned into value captures.
The remaining 20% are mostly in defers and non-escaping closures,
that is, they do not cause allocations anyway.

benchmark                                    old allocs     new allocs     delta
BenchmarkCompressedZipGarbage                153            126            -17.65%
BenchmarkEncodeDigitsSpeed1e4                91             69             -24.18%
BenchmarkEncodeDigitsSpeed1e5                178            129            -27.53%
BenchmarkEncodeDigitsSpeed1e6                1510           1051           -30.40%
BenchmarkEncodeDigitsDefault1e4              100            75             -25.00%
BenchmarkEncodeDigitsDefault1e5              193            139            -27.98%
BenchmarkEncodeDigitsDefault1e6              1420           985            -30.63%
BenchmarkEncodeDigitsCompress1e4             100            75             -25.00%
BenchmarkEncodeDigitsCompress1e5             193            139            -27.98%
BenchmarkEncodeDigitsCompress1e6             1420           985            -30.63%
BenchmarkEncodeTwainSpeed1e4                 109            81             -25.69%
BenchmarkEncodeTwainSpeed1e5                 211            151            -28.44%
BenchmarkEncodeTwainSpeed1e6                 1588           1097           -30.92%
BenchmarkEncodeTwainDefault1e4               103            77             -25.24%
BenchmarkEncodeTwainDefault1e5               199            143            -28.14%
BenchmarkEncodeTwainDefault1e6               1324           917            -30.74%
BenchmarkEncodeTwainCompress1e4              103            77             -25.24%
BenchmarkEncodeTwainCompress1e5              190            137            -27.89%
BenchmarkEncodeTwainCompress1e6              1327           919            -30.75%
BenchmarkConcurrentDBExec                    16223          16220          -0.02%
BenchmarkConcurrentStmtQuery                 17687          16182          -8.51%
BenchmarkConcurrentStmtExec                  5191           5186           -0.10%
BenchmarkConcurrentTxQuery                   17665          17661          -0.02%
BenchmarkConcurrentTxExec                    15154          15150          -0.03%
BenchmarkConcurrentTxStmtQuery               17661          16157          -8.52%
BenchmarkConcurrentTxStmtExec                3677           3673           -0.11%
BenchmarkConcurrentRandom                    14000          13614          -2.76%
BenchmarkManyConcurrentQueries               25             22             -12.00%
BenchmarkDecodeComplex128Slice               318            252            -20.75%
BenchmarkDecodeFloat64Slice                  318            252            -20.75%
BenchmarkDecodeInt32Slice                    318            252            -20.75%
BenchmarkDecodeStringSlice                   2318           2252           -2.85%
BenchmarkDecode                              11             8              -27.27%
BenchmarkEncodeGray                          64             56             -12.50%
BenchmarkEncodeNRGBOpaque                    64             56             -12.50%
BenchmarkEncodeNRGBA                         67             58             -13.43%
BenchmarkEncodePaletted                      68             60             -11.76%
BenchmarkEncodeRGBOpaque                     64             56             -12.50%
BenchmarkGoLookupIP                          153            139            -9.15%
BenchmarkGoLookupIPNoSuchHost                508            466            -8.27%
BenchmarkGoLookupIPWithBrokenNameServer      245            226            -7.76%
BenchmarkClientServer                        62             59             -4.84%
BenchmarkClientServerParallel4               62             59             -4.84%
BenchmarkClientServerParallel64              62             59             -4.84%
BenchmarkClientServerParallelTLS4            79             76             -3.80%
BenchmarkClientServerParallelTLS64           112            109            -2.68%
BenchmarkCreateGoroutinesCapture             10             6              -40.00%
BenchmarkAfterFunc                           1006           1005           -0.10%

Fixes #6632.

Change-Id: I0cd51e4d356331d7f3c5f447669080cd19b0d2ca
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3166
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2015-01-29 13:07:30 +00:00
Dmitry Vyukov 4ce4d8b2c4 cmd/gc: allocate stack buffer for ORUNESTR
If result of string(i) does not escape,
allocate a [4]byte temp on stack for it.

Change-Id: If31ce9447982929d5b3b963fd0830efae4247c37
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3411
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2015-01-28 20:37:20 +00:00
Dmitry Vyukov e6fac08146 cmd/gc: allocate buffers for non-escaped strings on stack
Currently we always allocate string buffers in heap.
For example, in the following code we allocate a temp string
just for comparison:

	if string(byteSlice) == "abc" { ... }

This change extends escape analysis to cover []byte->string
conversions and string concatenation. If the result of operations
does not escape, compiler allocates a small buffer
on stack and passes it to slicebytetostring and concatstrings.
Then runtime uses the buffer if the result fits into it.

Size of the buffer is 32 bytes. There is no fundamental theory
behind this number. Just an observation that on std lib
tests/benchmarks frequency of string allocation is inversely
proportional to string length; and there is significant number
of allocations up to length 32.

benchmark                                    old allocs     new allocs     delta
BenchmarkFprintfBytes                        2              1              -50.00%
BenchmarkDecodeComplex128Slice               318            316            -0.63%
BenchmarkDecodeFloat64Slice                  318            316            -0.63%
BenchmarkDecodeInt32Slice                    318            316            -0.63%
BenchmarkDecodeStringSlice                   2318           2316           -0.09%
BenchmarkStripTags                           11             5              -54.55%
BenchmarkDecodeGray                          111            102            -8.11%
BenchmarkDecodeNRGBAGradient                 200            188            -6.00%
BenchmarkDecodeNRGBAOpaque                   165            152            -7.88%
BenchmarkDecodePaletted                      319            309            -3.13%
BenchmarkDecodeRGB                           166            157            -5.42%
BenchmarkDecodeInterlacing                   279            268            -3.94%
BenchmarkGoLookupIP                          153            135            -11.76%
BenchmarkGoLookupIPNoSuchHost                508            466            -8.27%
BenchmarkGoLookupIPWithBrokenNameServer      245            226            -7.76%
BenchmarkClientServerParallel4               62             61             -1.61%
BenchmarkClientServerParallel64              62             61             -1.61%
BenchmarkClientServerParallelTLS4            79             78             -1.27%
BenchmarkClientServerParallelTLS64           112            111            -0.89%

benchmark                                    old ns/op      new ns/op      delta
BenchmarkFprintfBytes                        381            311            -18.37%
BenchmarkStripTags                           2615           2351           -10.10%
BenchmarkDecodeNRGBAGradient                 3715887        3635096        -2.17%
BenchmarkDecodeNRGBAOpaque                   3047645        2928644        -3.90%
BenchmarkGoLookupIP                          153            135            -11.76%
BenchmarkGoLookupIPNoSuchHost                508            466            -8.27%

Change-Id: I9ec01da816945c3329d7be3c7794b520418c3f99
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3120
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2015-01-28 20:12:38 +00:00
Dmitry Vyukov 22c16b4b92 cmd/gc: ignore re-slicing in escape analysis
Escape analysis treats everything assigned to OIND/ODOTPTR as escaping.
As the result b escapes in the following code:

	func (b *Buffer) Foo() {
		n, m := ...
		b.buf = b.buf[n:m]
	}

This change recognizes such assignments and ignores them.

Update issue #9043.
Update issue #7921.

There are two similar cases in std lib that benefit from this optimization.
First is in archive/zip:

type readBuf []byte
func (b *readBuf) uint32() uint32 {
	v := binary.LittleEndian.Uint32(*b)
	*b = (*b)[4:]
	return v
}

Second is in time:

type data struct {
	p     []byte
	error bool
}

func (d *data) read(n int) []byte {
	if len(d.p) < n {
		d.p = nil
		d.error = true
		return nil
	}
	p := d.p[0:n]
	d.p = d.p[n:]
	return p
}

benchmark                         old ns/op     new ns/op     delta
BenchmarkCompressedZipGarbage     32431724      32217851      -0.66%

benchmark                         old allocs     new allocs     delta
BenchmarkCompressedZipGarbage     153            143            -6.54%

Change-Id: Ia6cd32744e02e36d6d8c19f402f8451101711626
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3162
Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2015-01-28 17:37:55 +00:00
Dmitry Vyukov 1b87f01239 cmd/gc: improve escape analysis for &T{...}
Currently all PTRLIT element initializers escape. There is no reason for that.
This change links STRUCTLIT to PTRLIT; STRUCTLIT element initializers are
already linked to the STRUCTLIT. As the result, PTRLIT element initializers
escape when PTRLIT itself escapes.

Change-Id: I89ecd8677cbf81addcfd469cd2fd461c0e9bf7dd
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/3031
Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
2015-01-28 16:59:01 +00:00
Russ Cox 00d2f916ad cmd/gc: run escape analysis always (even in -N mode)
Fixes #8585.
Removes some little-used code paths.

LGTM=josharian
R=golang-codereviews, minux, josharian
CC=golang-codereviews, iant, r
https://golang.org/cl/132970043
2014-09-24 15:20:03 -04:00