Third time's the charm. The previous commit was reverted as a
reverse for-loop in SelectionDAGBuilder::lowerWorkItem did 'I--'
on an iterator at the beginning of a vector, causing asserts
when using debugging iterators. This commit fixes that.
llvm-svn: 235608
This is a re-commit of r235101, which also fixes the problems with the previous patch:
- Switches with only a default case and non-fallthrough were handled incorrectly
- The previous patch tickled a bug in PowerPC Early-Return Creation which is fixed here.
> This is a major rewrite of the SelectionDAG switch lowering. The previous code
> would lower switches as a binary tre, discovering clusters of cases
> suitable for lowering by jump tables or bit tests as it went along. To increase
> the likelihood of finding jump tables, the binary tree pivot was selected to
> maximize case density on both sides of the pivot.
>
> By not selecting the pivot in the middle, the binary trees would not always
> be balanced, leading to performance problems in the generated code.
>
> This patch rewrites the lowering to search for clusters of cases
> suitable for jump tables or bit tests first, and then builds the binary
> tree around those clusters. This way, the binary tree will always be balanced.
>
> This has the added benefit of decoupling the different aspects of the lowering:
> tree building and jump table or bit tests finding are now easier to tweak
> separately.
>
> For example, this will enable us to balance the tree based on profile info
> in the future.
>
> The algorithm for finding jump tables is quadratic, whereas the previous algorithm
> was O(n log n) for common cases, and quadratic only in the worst-case. This
> doesn't seem to be major problem in practice, e.g. compiling a file consisting
> of a 10k-case switch was only 30% slower, and such large switches should be rare
> in practice. Compiling e.g. gcc.c showed no compile-time difference. If this
> does turn out to be a problem, we could limit the search space of the algorithm.
>
> This commit also disables all optimizations during switch lowering in -O0.
>
> Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8649
llvm-svn: 235560
PowerPC has a conditional branch to the link register (return) instruction: BCLR.
This should be used any time when we'd otherwise have a conditional branch to a
return. This adds a small pass, PPCEarlyReturn, which runs just prior to the
branch selection pass (and, importantly, after block placement) to generate
these conditional returns when possible. It will also eliminate unconditional
branches to returns (these happen rarely; most of the time these have already
been tail duplicated by the time PPCEarlyReturn is invoked). This is a nice
optimization for small functions that do not maintain a stack frame.
llvm-svn: 179026
