phi/mergemem transformations (original) (raw)

John Rose John.Rose at Sun.COM
Thu Oct 15 17:31:09 PDT 2009

It's actually this delta: D 1.174 00/06/19 00:47:54 jrose 434 431 Phi nodes of type Memory now record their alias type also. Add factory methods PhiNode::make/make_blank/slice_memory. Teach PhiNode::Ideal to split phis through memory merges. Add manifest constants regarding Phi/Region layout. Add PhiNode::region() accessor, degrade_to_copy operation. Adjust PhiNode::Ideal logic to split Phis through MergeMems. Make CreateExNode::bottom_type be accurate.

I don't remember the problem, nor why it was "temporary".

I suppose I ran into optimizer loops where a degenerate phi nest could
cause this split logic to repeat forever.

Perhaps our eager dead code elimination makes this a thing of the past.

-- John

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