RFR: 8283232: x86: Improve vector broadcast operations [v12]

[Jatin Bhateja]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:55:39 GMT, Quan Anh Mai <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I think we should have a rough cost model here and not just basing it purely over connectivity of the node, or for the time being you can remove this change ?
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> A node being decided to prefer rematerialising to spilling has to satisfy that:
> 
> - The node is not explicitly said to be expensive, `divD` and `divF` fails at this stage.
> - The node declaration only contains simple register rules (explicit or implicit DEF dst and USE src), `vround` fails this because it has temp register, `cmpF_imm` and `cmpD_imm` fail this because they kill flags.
> - This method we are at agrees with the rematerialising.
> 
> I have looked at all instances where `constantaddress` is used and found no node where accidental rematerialisation is inefficient.

Thanks for your explanations, I agree.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/7832