As a result of -ftrivial-auto-var-init, clang generates instructions to set alloca'd memory to a given pattern, right after the allocation site. In some cases, this (somehow costly) operation could be delayed, leading to conditional execution in some cases.
This is not an uncommon situation: it happens ~550 times on the cPython code base, and much more on the LLVM codebase. The benefit greatly varies on the execution path, but it should not regress on performance.
drop this hunk