ICMP & SELECT patterns extracting the sign of a value can be simplified
to OR & ASR (see https://alive2.llvm.org/ce/z/Xx4iZ0).
This does not save any instructions in IR, but it is profitable on
AArch64, because we need at least 2 extra instructions to materialize 1
and -1 for the SELECT.
The improvements result in ~5% speedups on loops of the form
static int sign_of(int x) { if (x < 0) return -1; return 1; } void foo(const int *x, int *res, int cnt) { for (int i=0;i<cnt;i++) res[i] = sign_of(x[i]); }
auto -> ValueType