[mypyc] Use primitives for calls via type aliases (#14784)

Previously type aliases were looked up from the globals dictionary, even
if the target was a primitive type such as list. Now type aliases are
treated the same as direct references to types in calls, since type
aliases are assumed to be immutable.

This speeds up the deltablue benchmark by about 4%.

Author: JukkaL

mypyc/irbuild/builder.py

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
     Statement,
     SymbolNode,
     TupleExpr,
+    TypeAlias,
     TypeInfo,
     UnaryExpr,
     Var,
@@ -1024,7 +1025,8 @@ def call_refexpr_with_args(
 
         # Handle data-driven special-cased primitive call ops.
         if callee.fullname and expr.arg_kinds == [ARG_POS] * len(arg_values):
-            call_c_ops_candidates = function_ops.get(callee.fullname, [])
+            fullname = get_call_target_fullname(callee)
+            call_c_ops_candidates = function_ops.get(fullname, [])
             target = self.builder.matching_call_c(
                 call_c_ops_candidates, arg_values, expr.line, self.node_type(expr)
             )
@@ -1355,3 +1357,12 @@ def remangle_redefinition_name(name: str) -> str:
     lookups.
     """
     return name.replace("'", "__redef__")
+
+
+def get_call_target_fullname(ref: RefExpr) -> str:
+    if isinstance(ref.node, TypeAlias):
+        # Resolve simple type aliases. In calls they evaluate to the type they point to.
+        target = get_proper_type(ref.node.target)
+        if isinstance(target, Instance):
+            return target.type.fullname
+    return ref.fullname

mypyc/test-data/irbuild-lists.test

@@ -84,6 +84,22 @@ L0:
     x = r0
     return 1
 
+[case testNewListEmptyViaAlias]
+from typing import List
+
+ListAlias = list
+
+def f() -> None:
+    x: List[int] = ListAlias()
+
+[out]
+def f():
+    r0, x :: list
+L0:
+    r0 = PyList_New(0)
+    x = r0
+    return 1
+
 [case testNewListTwoItems]
 from typing import List
 def f() -> None: