Previously `extract` on a `SigSpec` would always unpack it. Since a
significant amount of `SigSpec`s have one or few chunks, it's worth
having a dedicated implementation.
This is especially true, since the RTLIL frontend calls into this for
every `wire [lhs:rhs]` slice, making this `extract` take up 40% when
profiling `read_rtlil` with one of the largest coarse grained RTLIL
designs I had on hand.
With this change the `read_rtlil` profile looks like I would expect it
to look like, but I noticed that a lot of the other core RTLIL methods
also are a bit too eager with unpacking or implementing
`SigChunk`/`Const` overloads that just convert to a single chunk
`SigSpec` and forward to the implementation for that, when a direct
implementation would avoid temporary std::vector allocations. While not
relevant for `read_rtlil`, to me it looks like there might be a few easy
overall performance gains to be had by addressing this more generally.
Jannis Harder
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