refactor out a middle representation
Kind of brewing a big refactor here, to give me some room between
skvm::Builder and skvm::Program to do optimizations, bakend
specializations and analysis.
As a warmup, I'm trying to split up today's Builder::Instruction into
two forms, first just what the user requested in Builder (this stays
Builder::Instruction) then a new type representing any transformation or
analysis we've done to it (OptimizedInstruction).
Roughly six important optimizations happen in SkVM today, in this order:
1) constant folding
2) backend-specific instruction specialization
3) common sub-expression elimination
4) reordering + dead code elimination
5) loop invariant and lifetime analysis
6) register assignment
At head 1-5 all happen in Builder, and 2 is particularly
awkward to have there (e.g. mul_f32 -> mul_f32_imm).
6 happens in Program per-backend, and that seems healthy.
As of this CL, 1-3 happen in Builder, 4-5 now on this middle
OptimizedInstruction format, and 6 still in Program.
I'd like to get to the point where 1 stays in Builder, 2-5 all happen on
this middle IR, and 6 stays in Program. That ought to let me do things
like turn mul_f32 -> mul_f32_imm when it's good to and still benefit
from things like common sub-expression elimination and code reordering
happening after that trnasformation.
And then, I hope that's also a good spot to do more complicated
transformations, like lowering gather8 into gather32 plus some fix up
when targeting an x86 JIT but not anywhere else. Today's Builder is too
early to know whether we should do this or not, and in Program it's
actually kind of awkward to do this sort of thing while also doing
having to do register assignment. Some middle might be right.
Change-Id: I9c00268a084f07fbab88d05eb441f1957a0d7c67
Reviewed-on: https://skia-review.googlesource.com/c/skia/+/269181
Reviewed-by: Herb Derby <herb@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Mike Klein <mtklein@google.com>
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