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    [TTI][LV] preferPredicateOverEpilogue · 6c2a4f5f
    Sjoerd Meijer authored
    We have two ways to steer creating a predicated vector body over creating a
    scalar epilogue. To force this, we have 1) a command line option and 2) a
    pragma available. This adds a third: a target hook to TargetTransformInfo that
    can be queried whether predication is preferred or not, which allows the
    vectoriser to make the decision without forcing it.
    
    While this change behaves as a non-functional change for now, it shows the
    required TTI plumbing, usage of this new hook in the vectoriser, and the
    beginning of an ARM MVE implementation. I will follow up on this with:
    - a complete MVE implementation, see D69845.
    - a patch to disable this, i.e. we should respect "vector_predicate(disable)"
      and its corresponding loophint.
    
    Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D69040
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