The previous algorithm was to search a writes and the sours of its value
operand, and see whether the write just stores the same read value back,
which includes a search whether there is another write access between
them. This is O(n^2) in the max number of accesses in a statement
(+ the complexity of isl comparing the access functions).
The new algorithm is more similar to the one used for searching for
overwrites and coalescable writes. It scans over all accesses in order
of execution while tracking which array elements still have the same
value since it was read. This is O(n), not counting the complexity
within isl. It should be more reliable than trying to catch all
non-conforming cases in the previous approach. It is also less code.
We now also support if the write is a partial write of the read's
domain, and to some extent non-affine subregions.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36137
llvm-svn: 309734
This new pass removes unnecessary accesses and writes. It currently
supports 2 simplifications, but more are planned.
It removes write accesses that write a loaded value back to the location
it was loaded from. It is a typical artifact from DeLICM. Removing it
will get rid of bogus dependencies later in dependency analysis.
It also removes statements without side-effects. ScopInfo already
removes these, but the removal of unnecessary writes can result in
more side-effect free statements.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30820
llvm-svn: 297473
Pengxuan Zheng