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Sam Parker 40574fefe9 [NFC][CostModel] Add TargetCostKind to relevant APIs
Make the kind of cost explicit throughout the cost model which,
apart from making the cost clear, will allow the generic parts to
calculate better costs. It will also allow some backends to
approximate and correlate the different costs if they wish. Another
benefit is that it will also help simplify the cost model around
immediate and intrinsic costs, where we currently have multiple APIs.

RFC thread:
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-April/141263.html

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79002
2020-05-05 10:35:54 +01:00
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2020-02-18 10:49:13 +08:00

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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