On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 04:11:03 GMT, Jasmine Karthikeyan 
<jkarthike...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> This patch adds a new pass to consolidate lowering of complex 
> backend-specific code patterns, such as `MacroLogicV` and the optimization 
> proposed by #21244. Moving these optimizations to backend code can simplify 
> shared code, while also making it easier to develop more in-depth 
> optimizations. The linked bug has an example of a new optimization this could 
> enable. The new phase does GVN to de-duplicate nodes and calls nodes' 
> `Value()` method, but it does not call `Identity()` or `Ideal()` to avoid 
> undoing any changes done during lowering. It also reuses the IGVN worklist to 
> avoid needing to re-create the notification mechanism.
> 
> In this PR only the skeleton code for the pass is added, moving `MacroLogicV` 
> to this system will be done separately in a future patch. Tier 1 tests pass 
> on my linux x64 machine. Feedback on this patch would be greatly appreciated!

@jaskarth , Being MacroLogic optimization pass author, I volenteer to move it 
to lowering phase once this patch gets integrated.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21599#issuecomment-2428128710

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