When computing a range for a SCEVUnknown, today we use computeKnownBits for unsigned ranges, and computeNumSignBots for signed ranges. This means we miss opportunities to improve range results.
One common missed pattern is that we have a signed range of a value which CKB can determine is positive, but CNSB doesn't convey that information. The current range includes the negative part, and is thus double the size.
Per the removed comment, the original concern which delayed using both (after some code merging years back) was a compile time concern. CTMark results (provided by Nikita, thanks!) showed a geomean impact of about 0.1%. This doesn't seem large enough to avoid higher quality results.
If computeKnownBits()-returned KnownBits claims to know one of the NS high (sign) bits,
would we get better results if instead of doing this here,
if we'd merge NS knowledge into Known, and repeated lines 5856-5858?