Refactor FlatModule.gather from stack to heap overflow#121
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Cherry-pick of upstream PR nturley#121. Converts recursive gather() to iterative loop to prevent stack overflow on large netlists.
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I ran into the same error as mentioned in issue #98 and saw that there's a proposition to fix it by refactoring FlatModule.gather from a recursive function to a loop, because it seems tail recursive-ish, this PR does exactly that.
Unfortunately it seems that
gatherisn't completely tail recursive (one condition leads to a recursive call and then afterwards modifies inputs) so I just left that part recursive and refactored all the other parts. However in my use case it seemed that this condition that can't be refactored wasn't the one causing a stack overflow, so in essence the patch is worthy and does fix at least some of the badly performing use cases.TL;DR - This patch allows using more RAM on beefy netlists before everything crashes and burns. I.e. a stack overflow has been refactored into a heap overflow (or into a successful case if there's enough RAM).