The rationale for this artificial dependency seems to have been lost to the
ravages of time, it is covered by no regression tests, and has no impact on
test-suite performance numbers on either x86 or PPC.
For the test suite, on both x86 and PPC, I ran the test suite 10 times (both as
a baseline and with this change), and found no statistically-significant
changes. For PPC, I used a P7 box. For x86, I used an Intel Xeon E5430. Both
with -O3 -mcpu=native.
This was discussed on-list back in January, but I've not had a chance to run
the performance tests until today.
llvm-svn: 206795