The Zeek code base has very inconsistent #includes. Many sources
included a few headers, and those headers included other headers, and
in the end, nearly everything is included everywhere, so missing
#includes were never noticed. Another side effect was a lot of header
bloat which slows down the build.
First step to fix it: in each source file, its own header should be
included first to verify that each header's includes are correct, and
none is missing.
After adding the missing #includes, I replaced lots of #includes
inside headers with class forward declarations. In most headers,
object pointers are never referenced, so declaring the function
prototypes with forward-declared classes is just fine.
This patch speeds up the build by 19%, because each compilation unit
gets smaller. Here are the "time" numbers for a fresh build (with a
warm page cache but without ccache):
Before this patch:
3144.94user 161.63system 3:02.87elapsed 1808%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 2168608maxresident)k
760inputs+12008400outputs (1511major+57747204minor)pagefaults 0swaps
After this patch:
2565.17user 141.83system 2:25.46elapsed 1860%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1489076maxresident)k
72576inputs+9130920outputs (1667major+49400430minor)pagefaults 0swaps
The hook being added is:
bool HookReporter(const std::string& prefix, const EventHandlerPtr event,
const Connection* conn, const val_list* addl, bool location,
const Location* location1, const Location* location2,
bool time, const std::string& buffer) override;
This hook gives access to basically all information that is available in
the function in Reporter.cc that performs the logging. The hook is
called each time when anything passes through the reporter in the cases
in which an event usually would be called. This includes weirds. The
hook can return false to prevent the normal reporter events from being
raised.
