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    • Jakob Stoklund Olesen's avatar
      Sketch a LiveRegMatrix analysis pass. · c26fbbfb
      Jakob Stoklund Olesen authored
      The LiveRegMatrix represents the live range of assigned virtual
      registers in a Live interval union per register unit. This is not
      fundamentally different from the interference tracking in RegAllocBase
      that both RABasic and RAGreedy use.
      
      The important differences are:
      
      - LiveRegMatrix tracks interference per register unit instead of per
        physical register. This makes interference checks cheaper and
        assignments slightly more expensive. For example, the ARM D7 reigster
        has 24 aliases, so we would check 24 physregs before assigning to one.
        With unit-based interference, we check 2 units before assigning to 2
        units.
      
      - LiveRegMatrix caches regmask interference checks. That is currently
        duplicated functionality in RABasic and RAGreedy.
      
      - LiveRegMatrix is a pass which makes it possible to insert
        target-dependent passes between register allocation and rewriting.
        Such passes could tweak the register assignments with interference
        checking support from LiveRegMatrix.
      
      Eventually, RABasic and RAGreedy will be switched to LiveRegMatrix.
      
      llvm-svn: 158255
      c26fbbfb
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