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Rong Xu
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This patch implements a pass that optimizes condition branches on x86 by taking advantage of the three-way conditional code generated by compare instructions. Currently, it tries to hoisting EQ and NE conditional branch to a dominant conditional branch condition where the same EQ/NE conditional code is computed. An example: bb_0: cmp %0, 19 jg bb_1 jmp bb_2 bb_1: cmp %0, 40 jg bb_3 jmp bb_4 bb_4: cmp %0, 20 je bb_5 jmp bb_6 Here we could combine the two compares in bb_0 and bb_4 and have the following code: bb_0: cmp %0, 20 jg bb_1 jl bb_2 jmp bb_5 bb_1: cmp %0, 40 jg bb_3 jmp bb_6 For the case of %0 == 20 (bb_5), we eliminate two jumps, and the control height for bb_6 is also reduced. bb_4 is gone after the optimization. This optimization is motivated by the branch pattern generated by the switch lowering: we always have pivot-1 compare for the inner nodes and we do a pivot compare again the leaf (like above pattern). This pass currently is enabled on Intel's Sandybridge and later arches. Some reviewers pointed out that on some arches (like AMD Jaguar), this pass may increase branch density to the point where it hurts the performance of the branch predictor. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46662 git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@343993 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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