[llvm-dev] DCE in the presence of control flow.

[David Callahan via llvm-dev]

Thanks
Also I found that some cases are also caught by a specialized routine to remove dead loops which is missing the case I noticed.
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From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin.org<mailto:dberlin at dberlin.org>>
Date: Thursday, January 28, 2016 at 8:45 PM
To: David Callahan <dcallahan at fb.com<mailto:dcallahan at fb.com>>, LLVM Dev Mailing list <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>>
Subject: Re: [llvm-dev] DCE in the presence of control flow.

The post dominators computation costs more on llvm than GCC because of how the respective cfgs work under the covers.  Even for GCC, when we implemented cd-dce, it only catches 1-2% more cases.  It's not really worth the cost in llvm unless postdom comes free

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016, 1:56 PM David Callahan via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org<mailto:llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
I have been looking at some internal codes looking for differences between Clang (specifically 3.7.1) and gcc (typically 4.8.1 but sometimes later).

One area where I bumped into was dead code elimination in the presence of complex control flow. I note that the “aggressive dead code elimination” (ADCE.cpp) treats all branch operations as live (isa<TerminatorInst>(I)).  Doing more requires some approximation to control dependence.

I note SimplifyCFG indirectly handles some simple cases. It will speculate the contents of a basic block into a predecessor but this is insufficient for more complex structures. This probably cherry-picks the most common cases by frequency.

Have their been prior attempts strengthen dead code elimination w.r.t. control flow? If so, any guidance on what went wrong?

Thanks
David

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