The motivation example is like below which has 13 cases but only 2 distinct targets
lor.lhs.false2: ; preds = %if.then switch i32 %Status, label %if.then27 [ i32 -7012, label %if.end35 i32 -10008, label %if.end35 i32 -10016, label %if.end35 i32 15000, label %if.end35 i32 14013, label %if.end35 i32 10114, label %if.end35 i32 10107, label %if.end35 i32 10105, label %if.end35 i32 10013, label %if.end35 i32 10011, label %if.end35 i32 7008, label %if.end35 i32 7007, label %if.end35 i32 5002, label %if.end35 ]
which is compiled into a balanced binary tree like this on AArch64 (similar on X86)
.LBB853_9: // %lor.lhs.false2 mov w8, #10012 cmp w19, w8 b.gt .LBB853_14 // BB#10: // %lor.lhs.false2 mov w8, #5001 cmp w19, w8 b.gt .LBB853_18 // BB#11: // %lor.lhs.false2 mov w8, #-10016 cmp w19, w8 b.eq .LBB853_23 // BB#12: // %lor.lhs.false2 mov w8, #-10008 cmp w19, w8 b.eq .LBB853_23 // BB#13: // %lor.lhs.false2 mov w8, #-7012 cmp w19, w8 b.eq .LBB853_23 b .LBB853_3 .LBB853_14: // %lor.lhs.false2 mov w8, #14012 cmp w19, w8 b.gt .LBB853_21 // BB#15: // %lor.lhs.false2 mov w8, #-10105 add w8, w19, w8 cmp w8, #9 // =9 b.hi .LBB853_17 // BB#16: // %lor.lhs.false2 orr w9, wzr, #0x1 lsl w8, w9, w8 mov w9, #517 and w8, w8, w9 cbnz w8, .LBB853_23 .LBB853_17: // %lor.lhs.false2 mov w8, #10013 cmp w19, w8 b.eq .LBB853_23 b .LBB853_3 .LBB853_18: // %lor.lhs.false2 mov w8, #-7007 add w8, w19, w8 cmp w8, #2 // =2 b.lo .LBB853_23 // BB#19: // %lor.lhs.false2 mov w8, #5002 cmp w19, w8 b.eq .LBB853_23 // BB#20: // %lor.lhs.false2 mov w8, #10011 cmp w19, w8 b.eq .LBB853_23 b .LBB853_3 .LBB853_21: // %lor.lhs.false2 mov w8, #14013 cmp w19, w8 b.eq .LBB853_23 // BB#22: // %lor.lhs.false2 mov w8, #15000 cmp w19, w8 b.ne .LBB853_3
However, the inline cost model estimates the cost to be linear with the number of distinct targets and the cost of the above switch is just 2 InstrCosts. The function containing this switch is then inlined about 900 times.
This change modifies the model to be linear with the size of the balanced binary tree.