The Pattern class was originally intended to be used for solely matching operations, but that use never materialized. All of the pattern infrastructure uses RewritePattern, and the infrastructure for pure matching(Matchers.h) is implemented inline. This means that this class isn't a useful abstraction at the moment, so this revision refactors it to solely encapsulate the "metadata" of a pattern. The metadata includes the various state describing a pattern; benefit, root operation, etc. The API on PatternApplicator is updated to now operate on `Pattern`s as nothing special from `RewritePattern` is necessary.
This refactoring is also necessary for the upcoming use of PDL patterns alongside C++ rewrite patterns.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D86258
This infrastructure has evolved a lot over the course of MLIRs lifetime, and has never truly been documented outside of rationale or proposals. This revision aims to document the infrastructure and user facing API, with the rationale specific portions moved to the Rationale folder and updated.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85260
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