This stops reporting CostPerUse 1 for `R8`-`R15` and `XMM8`-`XMM31`.
This was previously done because instruction encoding require a REX
prefix when using them resulting in longer instruction encodings. I
found that this regresses the quality of the register allocation as the
costs impose an ordering on eviction candidates. I also feel that there
is a bit of an impedance mismatch as the actual costs occure when
encoding instructions using those registers, but the order of VReg
assignments is not primarily ordered by number of Defs+Uses.
I did extensive measurements with the llvm-test-suite wiht SPEC2006 +
SPEC2017 included, internal services showed similar patterns. Generally
there are a log of improvements but also a lot of regression. But on
average the allocation quality seems to improve at a small code size
regression.
Results for measuring static and dynamic instruction counts:
Dynamic Counts (scaled by execution frequency) / Optimization Remarks:
Spills+FoldedSpills -5.6%
Reloads+FoldedReloads -4.2%
Copies -0.1%
Static / LLVM Statistics:
regalloc.NumSpills mean -1.6%, geomean -2.8%
regalloc.NumReloads mean -1.7%, geomean -3.1%
size..text mean +0.4%, geomean +0.4%
Static / LLVM Statistics:
mean -2.2%, geomean -3.1%) regalloc.NumSpills
mean -2.6%, geomean -3.9%) regalloc.NumReloads
mean +0.6%, geomean +0.6%) size..text
Static / LLVM Statistics:
regalloc.NumSpills mean -3.0%
regalloc.NumReloads mean -3.3%
size..text mean +0.3%, geomean +0.3%
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133902
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