patch brings numerous advantages to LLVM. One way to look at it
is through diffstat:
109 files changed, 3005 insertions(+), 5906 deletions(-)
Removing almost 3K lines of code is a good thing. Other advantages
include:
1. Value::getType() is a simple load that can be CSE'd, not a mutating
union-find operation.
2. Types a uniqued and never move once created, defining away PATypeHolder.
3. Structs can be "named" now, and their name is part of the identity that
uniques them. This means that the compiler doesn't merge them structurally
which makes the IR much less confusing.
4. Now that there is no way to get a cycle in a type graph without a named
struct type, "upreferences" go away.
5. Type refinement is completely gone, which should make LTO much MUCH faster
in some common cases with C++ code.
6. Types are now generally immutable, so we can use "Type *" instead
"const Type *" everywhere.
Downsides of this patch are that it removes some functions from the C API,
so people using those will have to upgrade to (not yet added) new API.
"LLVM 3.0" is the right time to do this.
There are still some cleanups pending after this, this patch is large enough
as-is.
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occurs because instcombine sinks loads and inserts phis. This kicks in
on such apps as 175.vpr, eon, 403.gcc, xalancbmk and a bunch of times in
spec2006 in some app that uses std::deque.
This resolves the last of rdar://7339113.
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common cases. This triggers a surprising number of times in SPEC2K6
because min/max idioms end up doing this. For example, code from the
STL ends up looking like this to SRoA:
%202 = load i64* %__old_size, align 8, !tbaa !3
%203 = load i64* %__old_size, align 8, !tbaa !3
%204 = load i64* %__n, align 8, !tbaa !3
%205 = icmp ult i64 %203, %204
%storemerge.i = select i1 %205, i64* %__n, i64* %__old_size
%206 = load i64* %storemerge.i, align 8, !tbaa !3
We can now promote both the __n and the __old_size allocas.
This addresses another chunk of rdar://7339113, poor codegen on
stringswitch.
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that have PHI or select uses of their element pointers. This can often happen
when instcombine sinks two loads into a successor, inserting a phi or select.
With this patch, we can scalarize the alloca, but the pinned elements are not
yet promoted. This is still a win for large aggregates where only one element
is used. This fixes rdar://8904039 and part of rdar://7339113 (poor codegen
on stringswitch).
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