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Sanjoy Das dcf2651043 Teach IRCE to look at branch weights when recognizing range checks
Splitting a loop to make range checks redundant is profitable only if
the range check "never" fails. Make this fact a part of recognizing a
range check -- a branch is a range check only if it is expected to
pass (via branch_weights metadata).

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7192

llvm-svn: 227249
2015-01-27 21:38:12 +00:00
Sanjoy Das a1837a342d Add a new pass "inductive range check elimination"
IRCE eliminates range checks of the form

  0 <= A * I + B < Length

by splitting a loop's iteration space into three segments in a way
that the check is completely redundant in the middle segment.  As an
example, IRCE will convert

  len = < known positive >
  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
    if (0 <= i && i < len) {
      do_something();
    } else {
      throw_out_of_bounds();
    }
  }

to

  len = < known positive >
  limit = smin(n, len)
  // no first segment
  for (i = 0; i < limit; i++) {
    if (0 <= i && i < len) { // this check is fully redundant
      do_something();
    } else {
      throw_out_of_bounds();
    }
  }
  for (i = limit; i < n; i++) {
    if (0 <= i && i < len) {
      do_something();
    } else {
      throw_out_of_bounds();
    }
  }


IRCE can deal with multiple range checks in the same loop (it takes
the intersection of the ranges that will make each of them redundant
individually).

Currently IRCE does not do any profitability analysis.  That is a
TODO.

Please note that the status of this pass is *experimental*, and it is
not part of any default pass pipeline.  Having said that, I will love
to get feedback and general input from people interested in trying
this out.

This pass was originally r226201.  It was reverted because it used C++
features not supported by MSVC 2012.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6693

llvm-svn: 226238
2015-01-16 01:03:22 +00:00
Sanjoy Das 7f62ac8e4d Revert r226201 (Add a new pass "inductive range check elimination")
The change used C++11 features not supported by MSVC 2012.  I will fix
the change to use things supported MSVC 2012 and recommit shortly.

llvm-svn: 226216
2015-01-15 22:18:10 +00:00
Sanjoy Das 7059e2959d Add a new pass "inductive range check elimination"
IRCE eliminates range checks of the form

  0 <= A * I + B < Length

by splitting a loop's iteration space into three segments in a way
that the check is completely redundant in the middle segment.  As an
example, IRCE will convert

  len = < known positive >
  for (i = 0; i < n; i++) {
    if (0 <= i && i < len) {
      do_something();
    } else {
      throw_out_of_bounds();
    }
  }

to

  len = < known positive >
  limit = smin(n, len)
  // no first segment
  for (i = 0; i < limit; i++) {
    if (0 <= i && i < len) { // this check is fully redundant
      do_something();
    } else {
      throw_out_of_bounds();
    }
  }
  for (i = limit; i < n; i++) {
    if (0 <= i && i < len) {
      do_something();
    } else {
      throw_out_of_bounds();
    }
  }


IRCE can deal with multiple range checks in the same loop (it takes
the intersection of the ranges that will make each of them redundant
individually).

Currently IRCE does not do any profitability analysis.  That is a
TODO.

Please note that the status of this pass is *experimental*, and it is
not part of any default pass pipeline.  Having said that, I will love
to get feedback and general input from people interested in trying
this out.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6693

llvm-svn: 226201
2015-01-15 20:45:46 +00:00