As noted in the code comment, transforming this in the other direction might require
a separate transform here in CGP given the block-at-a-time DAG constraint.
Besides that theoretical motivation, there are 2 practical motivations for the
subtract-of-cmps form:
1. The codegen for both x86 and PPC is better for this IR (though PPC could be better still).
There is discussion about canonicalizing IR to the select form
( http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2017-July/114885.html ),
so we probably need to add DAG transforms for those patterns anyway, but this improves the
memcmp output without waiting for that step.
2. If we allow vector-sized chunks for the load and compare, x86 is better prepared to convert
that to optimal code when using subtract-of-cmps, so another prerequisite patch is avoided
if we choose to enable that.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34904
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