Peepmatic was an early attempt at a DSL for peephole optimizations, with the
idea that maybe sometime in the future we could user it for instruction
selection as well. It didn't really pan out, however:
* Peepmatic wasn't quite flexible enough, and adding new operators or snippets
of code implemented externally in Rust was a bit of a pain.
* The performance was never competitive with the hand-written peephole
optimizers. It was *very* size efficient, but that came at the cost of
run-time efficiency. Everything was table-based and interpreted, rather than
generating any Rust code.
Ultimately, because of these reasons, we never turned Peepmatic on by default.
These days, we just landed the ISLE domain-specific language, and it is better
suited than Peepmatic for all the things that Peepmatic was originally designed
to do. It is more flexible and easy to integrate with external Rust code. It is
has better time efficiency, meeting or even beating hand-written code. I think a
small part of the reason why ISLE excels in these things is because its design
was informed by Peepmatic's failures. I still plan on continuing Peepmatic's
mission to make Cranelift's peephole optimizer passes generated from DSL rewrite
rules, but using ISLE instead of Peepmatic.
Thank you Peepmatic, rest in peace!
This also paves the way for unifying TargetIsa and MachBackend, since now they map one to one. In theory the two traits could be merged, which would be nice to limit the number of total concepts. Also they have quite different responsibilities, so it might be fine to keep them separate.
Interestingly, this PR started as removing RegInfo from the TargetIsa trait since the adapter returned a dummy value there. From the fallout, noticed that all Display implementations didn't needed an ISA anymore (since these were only used to render ISA specific registers). Also the whole family of RegInfo / ValueLoc / RegUnit was exclusively used for the old backend, and these could be removed. Notably, some IR instructions needed to be removed, because they were using RegUnit too: this was the oddball of regfill / regmove / regspill / copy_special, which were IR instructions inserted by the old regalloc. Fare thee well!
The tests for the SIMD floating-point maximum and minimum operations
require particular care because the handling of the NaN values is
non-deterministic and may vary between platforms. There is no way to
match several NaN values in a test, so the solution is to extract the
non-deterministic test cases into a separate file that is subsequently
replicated for every backend under test, with adjustments made to the
expected results.
Copyright (c) 2021, Arm Limited.
Rather than outright replacing parts of our existing peephole optimizations
passes, this makes peepmatic an optional cargo feature that can be enabled. This
allows us to take a conservative approach with enabling peepmatic everywhere,
while also allowing us to get it in-tree and make it easier to collaborate on
improving it quickly.
This ports all of the identity, no-op, simplification, and canonicalization
related optimizations over from being hand-coded to the `peepmatic` DSL. This
does not handle the branch-to-branch optimizations or most of the
divide-by-constant optimizations.
