We can convert any select-of-constants to math ops:
http://rise4fun.com/Alive/d7d
For this patch, I'm proposing to enhance an existing x86 transform that uses fake multiplies (they always become shl/lea) to avoid cmov or branching. The current code misses cases where we have a negative constant and a positive constant, so this is just trying to plug that hole.
The DAGCombiner diff prevents us from hitting a terrible inefficiency: we can start with a select in IR, create a select DAG node, convert it into a sext, convert it back into a select, and then lower it to sext machine code.
Some notes about the test diffs:
- 2010-08-04-MaskedSignedCompare.ll - We were creating control flow that didn't exist in the IR.
- memcmp.ll - Choose -1 or 1 is the case that got me looking at this again. I think we could avoid the push/pop in some cases if we used 'movzbl %al' instead of an xor on a different reg? That's a post-DAG problem though.
- mul-constant-result.ll - The trade-off between sbb+not vs. setne+neg could be addressed if that's a regression, but I think those would always be nearly equivalent.
- pr22338.ll and sext-i1.ll - These tests have undef operands, so I don't think we actually care about these diffs.
- sbb.ll - This shows a win for what I think is a common case: choose -1 or 0.
- select.ll - There's another borderline case here: cmp+sbb+or vs. test+set+lea? Also, sbb+not vs. setae+neg shows up again.
- select_const.ll - These are motivating cases for the enhancement; replace cmov with cheaper ops.