On recent Intel u-arch's, folding loads into some unary SSE instructions can
be non-optimal. To be precise, we should avoid folding loads if the instructions
only update part of the destination register, and the non-updated part is not
needed. e.g. cvtss2sd, sqrtss. Unfolding the load from these instructions breaks
the partial register dependency and it can improve performance. e.g.
movss (%rdi), %xmm0
cvtss2sd %xmm0, %xmm0
instead of
cvtss2sd (%rdi), %xmm0
An alternative method to break dependency is to clear the register first. e.g.
xorps %xmm0, %xmm0
cvtss2sd (%rdi), %xmm0
llvm-svn: 91672
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