[LV] Generate RT checks up-front and remove them if required.
This patch updates LV to generate the runtime checks just after cost modeling, to allow a more precise estimate of the actual cost of the checks. This information will be used in future patches to generate larger runtime checks in cases where the checks only make up a small fraction of the expected scalar loop execution time. The runtime checks are created up-front in a temporary block to allow better estimating the cost and un-linked from the existing IR. After deciding to vectorize, the checks are moved backed. If deciding not to vectorize, the temporary block is completely removed. This patch is similar in spirit to D71053, but explores a different direction: instead of delaying the decision on whether to vectorize in the presence of runtime checks it instead optimistically creates the runtime checks early and discards them later if decided to not vectorize. This has the advantage that the cost-modeling decisions can be kept together and can be done up-front and thus preserving the general code structure. I think delaying (part) of the decision to vectorize would also make the VPlan migration a bit harder. One potential drawback of this patch is that we speculatively generate IR which we might have to clean up later. However it seems like the code required to do so is quite manageable. Reviewed By: lebedev.ri, ebrevnov Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D75980
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