Currently in LLVM's cost model, a vectorized arithmetic instruction will have
high cost if its type is split into multiple registers. However, this
punishment is too heavy and unnecessary. The overhead of the split should not
be on arithmetic instructions but instructions that implement the split. Note
that during vectorization we have calculated the register pressure, and we
only choose proper interleaving factor (and also vectorization factor) so
that we don't use more registers than the maximum number.
Here is a very simple example: if a vadd has the cost 1, and if we double VF
so that we need two registers to perform it, then its cost will become 4 with
the current implementation, which will prevent us to use larger VF.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15159
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