LiveRanges represent the live-in range of a value as a sorted
list of intervals. Each interval starts at an EBB and continues
to an instruction. Before this commit, the LiveRange would store
an interval for each EBB. This commit changes the representation
such that intervals continuing from one EBB to another are coalesced
into one.
Fixes#37.
We will track live ranges separately for each SSA value, rather than per
virtual register like LLVM does.
This is the basis for a register allocator, so place it in a new
regalloc module.
The ProgramOrder::cmp() comparison is often used where one or both
arguments are statically known to be an Inst or Ebb. Give the compiler a
better chance to discover this via inlining and other optimizations.
- Make cmp() generic with Into<ExpandedProgramPoint> bounds.
- Implement the natural From<T> traits for ExpandedProgramPoint.
- Make Layout::pp_seq() generic with the same bound.
Now, with inlining and constant folding, passing an Inst argument to
PO::cmp() will result in a call to a monomorphized Layout::seq::<Inst>()
which can avoid the dynamic match to select a table for looking up the
sequence number.
The result is that comparing two program points of statically known type
results in two direct table lookups and a sequence number comparison.
This all uses ExpandedProgramPoint because it is more likely to be
transparent to the constant folder than the bit-packed ProgramPoint
type.
