The zero heuristic assumes that integers are more likely positive than negative,
but this also has the effect of assuming that strcmp return values are more
likely positive than negative. Given that for nonzero strcmp return values it's
the ordering of arguments that determines the sign of the result there's no
reason to assume that's true.
Fix this by inspecting the LHS of the compare and using TargetLibraryInfo to
decide if it's strcmp-like, and if so only assume that nonzero is more likely
than zero i.e. strings are more often different than the same. This causes a
slight code generation change in the spec2006 benchmark 403.gcc, but with no
noticeable performance impact. The intent of this patch is to allow better
optimisation of dhrystone on Cortex-M cpus, but currently it won't as there are
also some changes that need to be made to if-conversion.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33934
llvm-svn: 304970
Summary:
The motivation is the same as in D22141: In order to add the hotness
attribute to optimization remarks we need BFI to be available in all
passes that emit optimization remarks. BFI depends on BPI so unless we
make this lazy as well we would still compute BPI unconditionally.
The solution is to use the new LazyBPI pass in LazyBFI and only compute
BPI when computation of BFI is requested by the client.
I extended the laziness test using a LoopDistribute test to also cover
BPI.
Reviewers: hfinkel, davidxl
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D22835
llvm-svn: 277083
John Brawn