The current switch bit test clustering enumerates all possible case
clusters combinations to find ones that fit the bit test constrains
best. This causes performance problems with very large switches.
For bit test clustering which happens naturally in word sized chunks
I don't think such an expensive algorithm is really needed.
This patch implements a simple greedy algorithm that walks
the sorted list and examines word sized windows and tries
to cluster them.
Surprisingly the new algorithm gives consistly better clusters
for the examples I tried.
For example from the gcc bootstrap:
old: 0-15 16-31 96-175
new: 0-31 96-175
I'm not fully sure why that is, probably some bug in the old
algorithm? This shows even up in the test suite where if-to-switch-6
now can generate a switch, as well as a case in switch-1.c
I don't have a proof that the new algorithm is always as good or better,
but so far at least I don't see any counter examples.
It also fixes the excessive compile time in PR117091,
however this was already fixed by an earlier patch
that doesn't run clustering when no targets have multiple
values.
* gcc.dg/tree-ssa/if-to-switch-6.c: Allow condition chain.
* gcc.dg/tree-ssa/switch-1.c: Allow more bit tests.
* gcc.dg/pr21643.c: Use -fno-bit-tests
* gcc.target/aarch64/pr99988.c: Use -fno-bit-tests