Chris Lattner 4874f5bce5 teach libanalysis to simplify vector loads with bitcast sources. This
implements something out of Target/README.txt producing:

_foo:                                                       ## @foo
	movl	4(%esp), %eax
	movapd	LCPI1_0, %xmm0
	movapd	%xmm0, (%eax)
	ret	$4

instead of:

_foo:                                                       ## @foo
	movl	4(%esp), %eax
	movapd	_b, %xmm0
	mulpd	LCPI1_0, %xmm0
	addpd	_a, %xmm0
	movapd	%xmm0, (%eax)
	ret	$4

llvm-svn: 84942
2009-10-23 06:57:37 +00:00
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2009-10-17 23:48:54 +00:00

Analysis Opportunities:

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In test/Transforms/LoopStrengthReduce/quadradic-exit-value.ll, the
ScalarEvolution expression for %r is this:

  {1,+,3,+,2}<loop>

Outside the loop, this could be evaluated simply as (%n * %n), however
ScalarEvolution currently evaluates it as

  (-2 + (2 * (trunc i65 (((zext i64 (-2 + %n) to i65) * (zext i64 (-1 + %n) to i65)) /u 2) to i64)) + (3 * %n))

In addition to being much more complicated, it involves i65 arithmetic,
which is very inefficient when expanded into code.

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