If a virtual register is not assigned preferred physical register, it means some
COPY instructions will be changed to real register move instructions. In this
case we can try to split the virtual register in colder blocks, if success, the
original COPY instructions can be deleted, and the new COPY instructions in
colder blocks will be generated as register move instructions. It results in
fewer dynamic register move instructions executed.
The new test case split-reg-with-hint.ll gives an example, the hot path contains
24 instructions without this patch, now it is only 4 instructions with this
patch.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D156491
Fix the ARM backend's analyzeBranch so it doesn't ignore predicated
return instructions, and make the MachineVerifier rule more strict.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40061
