RFR: 8324655: Identify integer minimum and maximum patterns created with if statements

[Aleksey Shipilev]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:59:23 GMT, Jasmine Karthikeyan <jkarthikeyan at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Ah true, I hadn't considered that- do you think it makes sense to only do the transform if the if statement isn't highly predictable?

Yeah, I think if this is effectively translating branches to cmovs, it should be gated by cmov conversion heuristics somehow. Not sure how to do this cleanly, given the choice for cmov-s for min/max is done only later in matching rules.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17574#issuecomment-1911769670