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Commit 8a450cb2 authored by Jakob Stoklund Olesen's avatar Jakob Stoklund Olesen
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Enable register mask operands for x86 calls.

Call instructions no longer have a list of 43 call-clobbered registers.
Instead, they get a single register mask operand with a bit vector of
call-preserved registers.

This saves a lot of memory, 42 x 32 bytes = 1344 bytes per call
instruction, and it speeds up building call instructions because those
43 imp-def operands no longer need to be added to use-def lists. (And
removed and shifted and re-added for every explicit call operand).

Passes like LiveVariables, LiveIntervals, RAGreedy, PEI, and
BranchFolding are significantly faster because they can deal with call
clobbers in bulk.

Overall, clang -O2 is between 0% and 8% faster, uniformly distributed
depending on call density in the compiled code.  Debug builds using
clang -O0 are 0% - 3% faster.

I have verified that this patch doesn't change the assembly generated
for the LLVM nightly test suite when building with -disable-copyprop
and -disable-branch-fold.

Branch folding behaves slightly differently in a few cases because call
instructions have different hash values now.

Copy propagation flushes its data structures when it crosses a register
mask operand. This causes it to leave a few dead copies behind, on the
order of 20 instruction across the entire nightly test suite, including
SPEC. Fixing this properly would require the pass to use different data
structures.

llvm-svn: 150638
parent 9a89705d
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