1b80860f1f
We often see patterns like:
```
mov w2, #0xffff_ffff // uses ORR with logical immediate form
add w0, w1, w2
```
which is just `w0 := w1 - 1`. It would be much better to recognize when
the inverse of an immediate will fit in a 12-bit immediate field if the
immediate itself does not, and flip add to subtract (and vice versa), so
we can instead generate:
```
sub w0, w1, #1
```
We see this pattern in e.g. `bz2`, where this commit makes the following
difference (counting instructions with `perf stat`, filling in the
wasmtime cache first then running again to get just runtime):
pre:
```
992.762250 task-clock (msec) # 0.998 CPUs utilized
109 context-switches # 0.110 K/sec
0 cpu-migrations # 0.000 K/sec
5,035 page-faults # 0.005 M/sec
3,224,119,134 cycles # 3.248 GHz
4,000,521,171 instructions # 1.24 insn per cycle
<not supported> branches
27,573,755 branch-misses
0.995072322 seconds time elapsed
```
post:
```
993.853850 task-clock (msec) # 0.998 CPUs utilized
123 context-switches # 0.124 K/sec
1 cpu-migrations # 0.001 K/sec
5,072 page-faults # 0.005 M/sec
3,201,278,337 cycles # 3.221 GHz
3,917,061,340 instructions # 1.22 insn per cycle
<not supported> branches
28,410,633 branch-misses
0.996008047 seconds time elapsed
```
In other words, a 2.1% reduction in instruction count on `bz2`.
This crate contains the core Cranelift code generator. It translates code from an intermediate representation into executable machine code.