The PDL Interpreter dialect provides a lower level abstraction compared to the PDL dialect, and is targeted towards low level optimization and interpreter code generation. The dialect operations encapsulates low-level pattern match and rewrite "primitives", such as navigating the IR (Operation::getOperand), creating new operations (OpBuilder::create), etc. Many of the operations within this dialect also fuse branching control flow with some form of a predicate comparison operation. This type of fusion reduces the amount of work that an interpreter must do when executing.
An example of this representation is shown below:
```mlir
// The following high level PDL pattern:
pdl.pattern : benefit(1) {
%resultType = pdl.type
%inputOperand = pdl.input
%root, %results = pdl.operation "foo.op"(%inputOperand) -> %resultType
pdl.rewrite %root {
pdl.replace %root with (%inputOperand)
}
}
// May be represented in the interpreter dialect as follows:
module {
func @matcher(%arg0: !pdl.operation) {
pdl_interp.check_operation_name of %arg0 is "foo.op" -> ^bb2, ^bb1
^bb1:
pdl_interp.return
^bb2:
pdl_interp.check_operand_count of %arg0 is 1 -> ^bb3, ^bb1
^bb3:
pdl_interp.check_result_count of %arg0 is 1 -> ^bb4, ^bb1
^bb4:
%0 = pdl_interp.get_operand 0 of %arg0
pdl_interp.is_not_null %0 : !pdl.value -> ^bb5, ^bb1
^bb5:
%1 = pdl_interp.get_result 0 of %arg0
pdl_interp.is_not_null %1 : !pdl.value -> ^bb6, ^bb1
^bb6:
pdl_interp.record_match @rewriters::@rewriter(%0, %arg0 : !pdl.value, !pdl.operation) : benefit(1), loc([%arg0]), root("foo.op") -> ^bb1
}
module @rewriters {
func @rewriter(%arg0: !pdl.value, %arg1: !pdl.operation) {
pdl_interp.replace %arg1 with(%arg0)
pdl_interp.return
}
}
}
```
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D84579
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