[PATCH] D59926: Constant folding sometimes creates large constants even though a smaller constant is used multiple times

[Ramakota Reddy via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

ramred01 added a comment.

In D59926#1445820 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D59926#1445820>, @lebedev.ri wrote:

> This sounds like a back-end problem.
>  Have you considered/tried solving it there, instead of limiting the middle-end?


This folding is happening in the middle-end itself.  The LLVM IR already has the folded value.  Hence we thought it best to handle it there as this should be affecting multiple architectures where materializing constants can take two or more instructions.


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