Add a basic-block autovectorization pass.
This is the initial checkin of the basic-block autovectorization pass along with some supporting vectorization infrastructure.
Special thanks to everyone who helped review this code over the last several months (especially Tobias Grosser).
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@149468 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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<tr><td><a href="#adce">-adce</a></td><td>Aggressive Dead Code Elimination</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#always-inline">-always-inline</a></td><td>Inliner for always_inline functions</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#argpromotion">-argpromotion</a></td><td>Promote 'by reference' arguments to scalars</td></tr>
+<tr><td><a href="#bb-vectorize">-bb-vectorize</a></td><td>Combine instructions to form vector instructions within basic blocks</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#block-placement">-block-placement</a></td><td>Profile Guided Basic Block Placement</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#break-crit-edges">-break-crit-edges</a></td><td>Break critical edges in CFG</td></tr>
<tr><td><a href="#codegenprepare">-codegenprepare</a></td><td>Optimize for code generation</td></tr>
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<h3>
+ <a name="bb-vectorize">-bb-vectorize: Basic-Block Vectorization</a>
+</h3>
+<div>
+ <p>This pass combines instructions inside basic blocks to form vector
+ instructions. It iterates over each basic block, attempting to pair
+ compatible instructions, repeating this process until no additional
+ pairs are selected for vectorization. When the outputs of some pair
+ of compatible instructions are used as inputs by some other pair of
+ compatible instructions, those pairs are part of a potential
+ vectorization chain. Instruction pairs are only fused into vector
+ instructions when they are part of a chain longer than some
+ threshold length. Moreover, the pass attempts to find the best
+ possible chain for each pair of compatible instructions. These
+ heuristics are intended to prevent vectorization in cases where
+ it would not yield a performance increase of the resulting code.
+ </p>
+</div>
+
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+<h3>
<a name="block-placement">-block-placement: Profile Guided Basic Block Placement</a>
</h3>
<div>