Matt Pharr 17c6a19527 Add LLVMExtractFirstVectorElement() function (and use it). ...

For cases where it turns out that we just need the first element of
a vector (e.g. because we've determined that all of the values are
equal), it's often more efficient to only compute that one value
with scalar operations than to compute the whole vector's worth and
then just use one value.  This function tries to rewrite a vector
computation to the scalar equivalent, if possible.

(Partial work-around to http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11775.)

Note that sometimes this is the wrong thing to do--if we need the entire
vector value for other purposes, for example.

2012-03-19 11:48:33 -07:00

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