An identity COPY like this:
%AL = COPY %AL, %EAX<imp-def>
has no semantic effect, but encodes liveness information: Further users
of %EAX only depend on this instruction even though it does not define
the full register.
Replace the COPY with a KILL instruction in those cases to maintain this
liveness information. (This reverts a small part of r238588 but this
time adds a comment explaining why a KILL instruction is useful).
llvm-svn: 274952
Another case of x86-specific shuffle strength reduction:
avoid generating insert*128 instructions with index 0 because
they are slower than their non-lane-changing blend equivalents.
Shuffle lowering already catches most of these cases, but
the zero vector case and some other paths such as in the
modified test in vector-shuffle-256-v32.ll were getting
through.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8366
llvm-svn: 232773
Matthias Braun