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Summary: When computing branch weights in BPI, we used to disallow branches with weight 0. This is a minor nuisance, because a branch with weight 0 is different to "don't have information". In the context of instrumentation, it may mean "never executed", in the context of sampling, it means "never or seldom executed". In allowing 0 weight branches, I ran into issues with the switch expansion code in selection DAG. It is currently hardwired to not handle branches with weight 0. To maintain the current behaviour, I changed it to use 1 when it finds 0, but perhaps the algorithm needs changes to tolerate branches with weight zero. Reviewers: hansw Subscribers: llvm-commits Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D9533 git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@236617 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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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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