llvm-6502/lib/Analysis
Chandler Carruth ca323cf916 Teach the constant folder to look through bitcast constant expressions
much more effectively when trying to constant fold a load of a constant.
Previously, we only handled bitcasts by trying to find a totally generic
byte representation of the constant and use that. Now, we look through
the bitcast to see what constant we might fold the load into, and then
try to form a constant expression cast of the found value that would be
equivalent to loading the value.

You might wonder why on earth this actually matters. Well, turns out
that the Itanium ABI causes us to create a single array for a vtable
where the first elements are virtual base offsets, followed by the
virtual function pointers. Because the array is homogenous the element
type is consistently i8* and we inttoptr the virtual base offsets into
the initial elements.

Then constructors bitcast these pointers to i64 pointers prior to
loading them. Boom, no more constant folding of virtual base offsets.
This is the first fix to LLVM to address the *insane* performance Eric
Niebler discovered with Clang on his range comprehensions[1]. There is
more to come though, this doesn't *really* fix the problem fully.

[1]: http://ericniebler.com/2014/04/27/range-comprehensions/

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@208856 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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IPA Use a range loop. 2014-05-08 17:57:50 +00:00
AliasAnalysis.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
AliasAnalysisCounter.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
AliasAnalysisEvaluator.cpp
AliasDebugger.cpp
AliasSetTracker.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
Analysis.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
BasicAliasAnalysis.cpp Remove a couple of redundant copies of SmallVector::operator==. 2014-04-18 19:48:03 +00:00
BlockFrequencyInfo.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
BlockFrequencyInfoImpl.cpp blockfreq: Move include to .cpp 2014-05-06 01:57:42 +00:00
BranchProbabilityInfo.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
CaptureTracking.cpp [C++11] Add range based accessors for the Use-Def chain of a Value. 2014-03-09 03:16:01 +00:00
CFG.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
CFGPrinter.cpp raw_ostream: Forward declare OpenFlags and include FileSystem.h only where necessary. 2014-04-29 23:26:49 +00:00
CGSCCPassManager.cpp [PM] Add a new-PM-style CGSCC pass manager using the newly added 2014-04-21 11:12:00 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt Reapply "blockfreq: Rewrite BlockFrequencyInfoImpl" 2014-04-21 17:57:07 +00:00
CodeMetrics.cpp Consistent use of the noduplicate attribute. 2014-03-17 16:19:07 +00:00
ConstantFolding.cpp Teach the constant folder to look through bitcast constant expressions 2014-05-15 09:56:28 +00:00
CostModel.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
Delinearization.cpp split delinearization pass in 3 steps 2014-05-07 18:01:20 +00:00
DependenceAnalysis.cpp move findArrayDimensions to ScalarEvolution 2014-05-09 22:45:07 +00:00
DominanceFrontier.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
DomPrinter.cpp
InstCount.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
InstructionSimplify.cpp InstSimplify: Optimize signed icmp of -(zext V) 2014-05-14 20:16:28 +00:00
Interval.cpp
IntervalPartition.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
IVUsers.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
LazyCallGraph.cpp Fix typos 2014-05-15 01:52:21 +00:00
LazyValueInfo.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
LibCallAliasAnalysis.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
LibCallSemantics.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
Lint.cpp Rename ComputeMaskedBits to computeKnownBits. "Masked" has been 2014-05-14 21:14:37 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt
Loads.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
LoopInfo.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
LoopPass.cpp [Modules] Make Support/Debug.h modular. This requires it to not change 2014-04-21 22:55:11 +00:00
Makefile
MemDepPrinter.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
MemoryBuiltins.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
MemoryDependenceAnalysis.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
ModuleDebugInfoPrinter.cpp [C++11] Change DebugInfoFinder to use range-based loops 2014-03-18 09:41:07 +00:00
NoAliasAnalysis.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
PHITransAddr.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
PostDominators.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
PtrUseVisitor.cpp [C++11] Add range based accessors for the Use-Def chain of a Value. 2014-03-09 03:16:01 +00:00
README.txt
RegionInfo.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
RegionPass.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
RegionPrinter.cpp Use unique_ptr to manage ownership of child Regions within llvm::Region 2014-04-15 18:32:43 +00:00
ScalarEvolution.cpp Rename ComputeMaskedBits to computeKnownBits. "Masked" has been 2014-05-14 21:14:37 +00:00
ScalarEvolutionAliasAnalysis.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
ScalarEvolutionExpander.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
ScalarEvolutionNormalization.cpp [C++11] More 'nullptr' conversion. In some cases just using a boolean check instead of comparing to nullptr. 2014-04-15 04:59:12 +00:00
SparsePropagation.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
TargetTransformInfo.cpp [Modules] Fix potential ODR violations by sinking the DEBUG_TYPE 2014-04-22 02:48:03 +00:00
Trace.cpp
TypeBasedAliasAnalysis.cpp [TBAA] Fix handling of mixed TBAA (path-aware and non-path-aware TBAA). 2014-05-03 22:32:52 +00:00
ValueTracking.cpp Rename ComputeMaskedBits to computeKnownBits. "Masked" has been 2014-05-14 21:14:37 +00:00

Analysis Opportunities:

//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//

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.

//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//

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))

//===---------------------------------------------------------------------===//