This is the IR optimizer follow-on patch for D8563: the x86 backend patch
that converts this kind of shuffle back into a vperm2.
This is also a continuation of the transform that started in D8486.
In that patch, Andrea suggested that we could convert vperm2 intrinsics that
use zero masks into a single shuffle.
This is an implementation of that suggestion.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8567
llvm-svn: 233110
vperm2* intrinsics are just shuffles.
In a few special cases, they're not even shuffles.
Optimizing intrinsics in InstCombine is better than
handling this in the front-end for at least two reasons:
1. Optimizing custom-written SSE intrinsic code at -O0 makes vector coders
really angry (and so I have regrets about some patches from last week).
2. Doing mask conversion logic in header files is hard to write and
subsequently read.
There are a couple of TODOs in this patch to complete this optimization.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8486
llvm-svn: 232852