Adam Nemet 0d1e8dd84e [LoopAccesses] Make blockNeedsPredication static
blockNeedsPredication is in LoopAccess in order to share it with the
vectorizer.  It's a utility needed by LoopAccess not strictly provided
by it but it's a good place to share it.  This makes the function static
so that it no longer required to create an LoopAccessInfo instance in
order to access it from LV.

This was actually causing problems because it would have required
creating LAI much earlier that LV::canVectorizeMemory().

This is part of the patchset that converts LoopAccessAnalysis into an
actual analysis pass.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@229625 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2015-02-18 03:43:19 +00:00
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2015-02-15 19:07:31 +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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In formatValue in test/CodeGen/X86/lsr-delayed-fold.ll,

ScalarEvolution is forming this expression:

((trunc i64 (-1 * %arg5) to i32) + (trunc i64 %arg5 to i32) + (-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32)))

This could be folded to

(-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32))

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