patch brings numerous advantages to LLVM. One way to look at it
is through diffstat:
109 files changed, 3005 insertions(+), 5906 deletions(-)
Removing almost 3K lines of code is a good thing. Other advantages
include:
1. Value::getType() is a simple load that can be CSE'd, not a mutating
union-find operation.
2. Types a uniqued and never move once created, defining away PATypeHolder.
3. Structs can be "named" now, and their name is part of the identity that
uniques them. This means that the compiler doesn't merge them structurally
which makes the IR much less confusing.
4. Now that there is no way to get a cycle in a type graph without a named
struct type, "upreferences" go away.
5. Type refinement is completely gone, which should make LTO much MUCH faster
in some common cases with C++ code.
6. Types are now generally immutable, so we can use "Type *" instead
"const Type *" everywhere.
Downsides of this patch are that it removes some functions from the C API,
so people using those will have to upgrade to (not yet added) new API.
"LLVM 3.0" is the right time to do this.
There are still some cleanups pending after this, this patch is large enough
as-is.
llvm-svn: 134829
With Lit (not bash) in a test, multiple redirects >%t might open(%t, "w") multiple. It can be avoided if latter redirect is >>%t.
It might work even if ">/dev/null" were used.
llvm-svn: 134814
CPU, and feature string. Parsing some asm directives can change
subtarget state (e.g. .code 16) and it must be reflected in other
modules (e.g. MCCodeEmitter). That is, the MCSubtargetInfo instance
must be shared.
llvm-svn: 134795
Spills should be hoisted out of loops, but we don't want to hoist them
to dominating blocks at the same loop depth. That could cause the spills
to be executed more often.
llvm-svn: 134782
Try to move spills as early as possible in their basic block. This can
help eliminate interferences by shortening the live range being
spilled.
This fixes PR10221.
llvm-svn: 134776
According to Intel Application Note 485, this value is used for
"Intel Core i7 and Intel Xeon processor". Just include it with the other
"corei7-avx" entries.
llvm-svn: 134750
The normal tBX instruction is predicable, so there's no reason the
pseudos for using it as a return shouldn't be. Gives us some nice code-gen
improvements as can be seen by the test changes. In particular, several
tests now have to disable if-conversion because it works too well and defeats
the test.
llvm-svn: 134746
