Simon Pilgrim 5e6bfb661e [Analysis] Pass RecurrenceDescriptor as const reference. NFCI.
We were passing the RecurrenceDescriptor by value to most of the reduction analysis methods, despite it being rather bulky with TrackingVH members (that can be costly to copy). In all these cases we're only using the RecurrenceDescriptor for rather basic purposes (access to types/kinds etc.).

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104029
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In test/Transforms/LoopStrengthReduce/quadradic-exit-value.ll, the
ScalarEvolution expression for %r is this:

  {1,+,3,+,2}<loop>

Outside the loop, this could be evaluated simply as (%n * %n), however
ScalarEvolution currently evaluates it as

  (-2 + (2 * (trunc i65 (((zext i64 (-2 + %n) to i65) * (zext i64 (-1 + %n) to i65)) /u 2) to i64)) + (3 * %n))

In addition to being much more complicated, it involves i65 arithmetic,
which is very inefficient when expanded into code.

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In formatValue in test/CodeGen/X86/lsr-delayed-fold.ll,

ScalarEvolution is forming this expression:

((trunc i64 (-1 * %arg5) to i32) + (trunc i64 %arg5 to i32) + (-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32)))

This could be folded to

(-1 * (trunc i64 undef to i32))

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