Consider (x == -1) unlikely in BranchProbabilityInfo
This adds another heuristic to BPI, similar to the existing heuristic that considers (x == 0) unlikely to be true. As suggested in the PACT'98 paper by Deitrich, Cheng, and Hwu, -1 is often used to indicate an invalid index, and equality comparisons with -1 are also unlikely to succeed. Local experimentation supports this hypothesis: This yields a 1-2% speedup in the test-suite sqlite benchmark on the PPC A2 core, with no significant regressions. llvm-svn: 193855
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