EarlyCSE was added with D75145, but the motivating test is
not regressed by removing the extra pass now. That might be
because VectorCombine altered the way it processes instructions,
or it might be from (re)moving VectorCombine in the pipeline.
The extra round of EarlyCSE appears to cost approximately
0.26% in compile-time as discussed in D80236, so we need some
evidence to justify its inclusion here, but we do not have
that (yet).
I suspect that between SLP and VectorCombine, we are creating
patterns that InstCombine and/or codegen are not prepared for,
but we will need to reduce those examples and include them as
PhaseOrdering and/or test-suite benchmarks.
As noted in D80236, moving the pass in the pipeline exposed this
shortcoming. Extra work to recalculate the alias results showed
up as a compile-time slowdown.
There are 2 known problem patterns shown in the test diffs here:
vector horizontal ops (an x86 specialization) and vector reductions.
SLP has greater ability to match and fold those than vector-combine,
so let SLP have first chance at that.
This is a quick fix while we continue to improve vector-combine and
possibly canonicalize to reduction intrinsics.
In the longer term, we should improve matching of these patterns
because if they were created in the "bad" forms shown here, then we
would miss optimizing them.
I'm not sure what is happening with alias analysis on the addsub test.
The old pass manager now shows an extra line for that, and we see an
improvement that comes from SLP vectorizing a store. I don't know
what's missing with the new pass manager to make that happen.
Strangely, I can't reproduce the behavior if I compile from C++ with
clang and invoke the new PM with "-fexperimental-new-pass-manager".
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D80236
Promote alloca to vector before SROA and loop unroll. If we manage
to eliminate allocas before unroll we may choose to unroll less.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D80386
Sanjay Patel