cmd/compile: optimize bool to int conversion
This CL teaches SSA to recognize code of the form // b is a boolean value, i is an int of some flavor if b { i = 1 } else { i = 0 } and use b's underlying 0/1 representation for i instead of generating jumps. Unfortunately, it does not work on the obvious code: func bool2int(b bool) int { if b { return 1 } return 0 } This is left for future work. Note that the existing phiopt optimizations also don't work for: func neg(b bool) bool { if b { return false } return true } In the meantime, runtime authors and the like can use: func bool2int(b bool) int { var i int if b { i = 1 } else { i = 0 } return i } This compiles to: "".bool2int t=1 size=16 args=0x10 locals=0x0 0x0000 00000 (x.go:25) TEXT "".bool2int(SB), $0-16 0x0000 00000 (x.go:25) FUNCDATA $0, gclocals·23e8278e2b69a3a75fa59b23c49ed6ad(SB) 0x0000 00000 (x.go:25) FUNCDATA $1, gclocals·33cdeccccebe80329f1fdbee7f5874cb(SB) 0x0000 00000 (x.go:32) MOVBLZX "".b+8(FP), AX 0x0005 00005 (x.go:32) MOVBQZX AL, AX 0x0008 00008 (x.go:32) MOVQ AX, "".~r1+16(FP) 0x000d 00013 (x.go:32) RET The extraneous MOVBQZX is #15300. This optimization also helps range and slice. The compiler must protect against pointers pointing to the end of a slice/string. It does this by increasing a pointer by either 0 or 1 * elemsize, based on a condition. This CL optimizes away a jump in that code. This CL triggers 382 times while compiling the standard library. Updating code to utilize this optimization is left for future CLs. Updates #6011 Change-Id: Ia7c1185f8aa223c543f91a3cd6d4a2a09c691c70 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/22711 Run-TryBot: Josh Bleecher Snyder <josharian@gmail.com> TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
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