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This change is the first in a series of changes improving LLVM's Block Frequency propogation implementation to not lose probability mass in branchy code when propogating block frequency information from a basic block to its successors. This patch is a simple infrastructure improvement that does not actually modify the block frequency algorithm. The specific changes are: 1. Changes the division algorithm used when scaling block frequencies by branch probabilities to a short division algorithm. This gives us the remainder for free as well as provides a nice speed boost. When I benched the old routine and the new routine on a Sandy Bridge iMac with disabled turbo mode performing 8192 iterations on an array of length 32768, I saw ~600% increase in speed in mean/median performance. 2. Exposes a scale method that returns a remainder. This is important so we can ensure that when we scale a block frequency by some branch probability BP = N/D, the remainder from the division by D can be retrieved and propagated to other children to ensure no probability mass is lost (more to come on this). git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@194950 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8