We call tail-call-elim near the beginning of the pipeline,
but that is too early to annotate calls that get added later.
In the motivating case from issue #47852, the missing 'tail'
on memset leads to sub-optimal codegen.
I experimented with removing the early instance of
tail-call-elim instead of just adding another pass, but that
appears to be slightly worse for compile-time:
+0.15% vs. +0.08% time.
"tailcall" shows adding the pass; "tailcall2" shows moving
the pass to later, then adding the original early pass back
(so 1596886802 is functionally equivalent to 180b0439dc ):
https://llvm-compile-time-tracker.com/index.php?config=NewPM-O3&stat=instructions&remote=rotateright
Note that there was an effort to split the tail call functionality
into 2 passes - that could help reduce compile-time if we find
that this change costs more in compile-time than expected based
on the preliminary testing:
D60031
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130374
This was reverted due to performance regressions in ARM benchmarks,
which have since been addressed by D101196 (SCEV analysis improvement)
and D101778 (CGP reverse transform).
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The single-use case is handled implicity by converting the icmp
into a mask check first. When comparing with zero in particular,
we don't need the one-use restriction, as we only produce a single
icmp.
https://alive2.llvm.org/ce/z/MSixcmhttps://alive2.llvm.org/ce/z/GwpG0M
This reverts commit 9423f78240a216e3f38b394a41fe3427dee22c26.
A performance regression with this patch has been reported at
https://reviews.llvm.org/rG9423f78240a2#990953. Reverting for now.
