1) For 8-bit registers try to use first the ones that are parts of the
same register (AL then AH). This way we only alias 2 16/32-bit
registers after allocating 4 8-bit variables.
2) Move EBX as the last register to allocate. This will cause less
spills to happen since we will have 8-bit registers available up to
register excaustion (assuming we use the allocation order). It
would be nice if we could push all of the 8-bit aliased registers
towards the end but we much prefer to keep callee saved register to
the end to avoid saving them on entry and exit of the function.
For example this gives a slight reduction of spills with linear scan
on 164.gzip.
Before:
11221 asm-printer - Number of machine instrs printed
975 spiller - Number of loads added
675 spiller - Number of stores added
398 spiller - Number of register spills
After:
11182 asm-printer - Number of machine instrs printed
952 spiller - Number of loads added
652 spiller - Number of stores added
386 spiller - Number of register spills
llvm-svn: 11996
Alkis Evlogimenos