Speed up compilation of std::visit() by ~8x by hard-coding the most common cases

Author: higher-performance

libcxx/include/variant

@@ -1578,11 +1578,42 @@ _LIBCPP_HIDE_FROM_ABI constexpr void __throw_if_valueless(_Vs&&... __vs) {
   }
 }
 
-template < class _Visitor, class... _Vs, typename>
+template <class _Visitor, class... _Vs, typename>
 _LIBCPP_HIDE_FROM_ABI constexpr decltype(auto) visit(_Visitor&& __visitor, _Vs&&... __vs) {
-  using __variant_detail::__visitation::__variant;
-  std::__throw_if_valueless(std::forward<_Vs>(__vs)...);
-  return __variant::__visit_value(std::forward<_Visitor>(__visitor), std::forward<_Vs>(__vs)...);
+#    define _XDispatchIndex(_I)                                                                                        \
+    case _I:                                                                                                           \
+      if constexpr (__variant_size::value > _I) {                                                                      \
+        return __visitor(__variant::__get_alt<_I>(std::forward<_Vs>(__vs)...).__value);                                \
+      }                                                                                                                \
+      [[__fallthrough__]]
+#    define _XDispatchMax 7 // Speed up compilation for the common cases
+  if constexpr (sizeof...(_Vs) == 1) {
+    if constexpr (variant_size<__remove_cvref_t<_Vs>...>::value <= _XDispatchMax) {
+      using __variant_detail::__access::__variant;
+      using __variant_size     = variant_size<__remove_cvref_t<_Vs>...>;
+      const size_t __indexes[] = {__vs.index()...};
+      switch (__indexes[0]) {
+        _XDispatchIndex(_XDispatchMax - 7);
+        _XDispatchIndex(_XDispatchMax - 6);
+        _XDispatchIndex(_XDispatchMax - 5);
+        _XDispatchIndex(_XDispatchMax - 4);
+        _XDispatchIndex(_XDispatchMax - 3);
+        _XDispatchIndex(_XDispatchMax - 2);
+        _XDispatchIndex(_XDispatchMax - 1);
+        _XDispatchIndex(_XDispatchMax - 0);
+      default:
+        __throw_bad_variant_access();
+      }
+    } else {
+      static_assert(variant_size<__remove_cvref_t<_Vs>...>::value > _XDispatchMax, "forgot to add dispatch case");
+    }
+  } else {
+    using __variant_detail::__visitation::__variant;
+    std::__throw_if_valueless(std::forward<_Vs>(__vs)...);
+    return __variant::__visit_value(std::forward<_Visitor>(__visitor), std::forward<_Vs>(__vs)...);
+  }
+#    undef _XDispatchMax
+#    undef _XDispatchIndex
 }
 
 #    if _LIBCPP_STD_VER >= 20