Utilizing the 8 and 16 bit comparison instructions, even when an input can
be folded into the comparison instruction itself, is typically not worth it.
There are too many partial register stalls as a result, leading to significant
slowdowns. By always performing comparisons on at least 32-bit
registers, performance of the calculation chain leading to the
comparison improves. Continue to use the smaller comparisons when
minimizing size, as that allows better folding of loads into the
comparison instructions.
rdar://15386341
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This was done with the following sed invocation to catch label lines demarking function boundaries:
sed -i '' "s/^;\( *\)\([A-Z0-9_]*\):\( *\)test\([A-Za-z0-9_-]*\):\( *\)$/;\1\2-LABEL:\3test\4:\5/g" test/CodeGen/*/*.ll
which was written conservatively to avoid false positives rather than false negatives. I scanned through all the changes and everything looks correct.
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ReduceLoadWidth unconditionally drops extensions from loads. Limit it to the
case when all of the bits the extension would otherwise produce are dropped by
the shrink. It would be possible to shrink the load in more cases by merging
the extensions, but this isn't trivial and a very rare case. I left a TODO for
that case.
Fixes PR16551.
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On x86 this allows to fold a load into the cmp, greatly reducing register pressure.
movzbl (%rdi), %eax
cmpl $47, %eax
->
cmpb $47, (%rdi)
This shaves 8k off gcc.o on i386. I'll leave applying the patch in README.txt to Chris :)
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