This patch adds a new abstraction layer to VPlan and leverages it to model the planned
instructions that manipulate masks (AND, OR, NOT), introduced during predication.
The new VPValue and VPUser classes model how data flows into, through and out
of a VPlan, forming the vertices of a planned Def-Use graph. The new
VPInstruction class is a generic single-instruction Recipe that models a
planned instruction along with its opcode, operands and users. See
VectorizationPlan.rst for more details.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D38676
llvm-svn: 318645
Following the request made in https://reviews.llvm.org/D32871, the
general documentation of the Vectorization Plan is hereby placed
under docs/Proposals.
llvm-svn: 304161