Chandler Carruth 1e05bd9e71 Introduce a generic interface for querying an operation's expected
lowered cost.

Currently, this is a direct port of the logic implementing
isInstructionFree in CodeMetrics. The hope is that the interface can be
improved (f.ex. supporting un-formed instruction queries) and the
implementation abstracted so that as we have test cases and target
knowledge we can expose increasingly accurate heuristics to clients.

I'll start switching existing consumers over and kill off the routine in
CodeMetrics in subsequent commits.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@172998 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2013-01-21 01:27:39 +00:00
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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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