This was done through the aid of a terrible Perl creation. I will not
paste any of the horrors here. Suffice to say, it require multiple
staged rounds of replacements, state carried between, and a few
nested-construct-parsing hacks that I'm not proud of. It happens, by
luck, to be able to deal with all the TCL-quoting patterns in evidence
in the LLVM test suite.
If anyone is maintaining large out-of-tree test trees, feel free to poke
me and I'll send you the steps I used to convert things, as well as
answer any painful questions etc. IRC works best for this type of thing
I find.
Once converted, switch the LLVM lit config to use ShTests the same as
Clang. In addition to being able to delete large amounts of Python code
from 'lit', this will also simplify the entire test suite and some of
lit's architecture.
Finally, the test suite runs 33% faster on Linux now. ;]
For my 16-hardware-thread (2x 4-core xeon e5520): 36s -> 24s
llvm-svn: 159525
- Add patterns for h-register extract, which avoids a shift and mask,
and in some cases a temporary register.
- Add address-mode matching for turning (X>>(8-n))&(255<<n), where
n is a valid address-mode scale value, into an h-register extract
and a scaled-offset address.
- Replace X86's MOV32to32_ and related instructions with the new
target-independent COPY_TO_SUBREG instruction.
On x86-64 there are complicated constraints on h registers, and
CodeGen doesn't currently provide a high-level way to express all of them,
so they are handled with a bunch of special code. This code currently only
supports extracts where the result is used by a zero-extend or a store,
though these are fairly common.
These transformations are not always beneficial; since there are only
4 h registers, they sometimes require extra move instructions, and
this sometimes increases register pressure because it can force out
values that would otherwise be in one of those registers. However,
this appears to be relatively uncommon.
llvm-svn: 68962
