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Rollup merge of #143394 - workingjubilee:reorganize-hir-analysis-provide-fn, r=compiler-errors
compiler: Document and reduce `fn provide`s in hir crates
I found it hard to follow all these tiny micro-indirections. Much like you shouldn't pass around `&u32` if you can help it, you probably shouldn't use an indirection if the indirection overhead itself is literally bigger than the amount of data you are organizing. Generally a new `fn provide` amounts to around 3 LOC:
- the signature with opening brace
- the `rustc_middle::query::Providers` import
- an end brace
I am not even counting the cost in time and thought to go find the other `provide`, read it, understand, "Ah, yes, these functions", and then go to those. Thus I say we should collapse indirections of `provide` for modules that only export 1~2 queries. For higher-count indirections, I left them as-is, as I don't understand the crate well enough to judge their worth.
Then I dropped a pointer to the actual module of interest for all these instances of the same function. I think documenting them is important because the comment that it relates to the query system makes it obvious that they have **nothing** to do with the rest of the module's logic and I can carry on ignoring them. Actively doing so is another cognitive cost, but much more minimal.
There is also a small correctness issue in that all of these functions are technically mutating state. It's not a huge deal, but it's still easier to check all these mutations do not overlap if we have less instances of `fn provide` to check.
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