[PowerPC] Add a late MI-level pass for QPX load/splat simplification
Chapter 3 of the QPX manual states that, "Scalar floating-point load instructions, defined in the Power ISA, cause a replication of the source data across all elements of the target register." Thus, if we have a load followed by a QPX splat (from the first lane), the splat is redundant. This adds a late MI-level pass to remove the redundant splats in some of these cases (specifically when both occur in the same basic block). This optimization is scheduled just prior to post-RA scheduling. It can't happen before anything that might replace the load with some already-computed quantity (i.e. store-to-load forwarding). llvm-svn: 265047
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