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Comment at: llvm/test/tools/gold/X86/opt-level.ll:53
+  ; CHECK-O1-OLDPM: select
+  ; The new PM does not do as many optimizations at O1
+  ; CHECK-O1-NEWPM: phi
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chandlerc wrote:
> tejohnson wrote:
> > tejohnson wrote:
> > > mehdi_amini wrote:
> > > > This is intended? I'm surprised the two PMs don't have the same list of 
> > > > passes for a given opt level?
> > > I'm really not sure. I did compare the post-link LTO pipelines of both 
> > > PMs at O0/O1/O2 and confirmed that the old PM is doing many more passes 
> > > than the new PM at O1. Probably a question for @chandlerc ? In any case, 
> > > I didn't want to address it here since it is orthogonal.
> > Some more info:
> > 
> > This is the regular LTO post-link pipeline, ThinLTO post-link pipeline uses 
> > essentially the same as a normal opt pipeline so would be consistent at -O1.
> > 
> > The optimization missing from the new PM regular LTO post link pipeline 
> > that affects this test is SimplifyCFG. This and a few other optimizations 
> > are added in the old PM at O1 via 
> > PassManagerBuilder::addLateLTOOptimizationPasses. Note that 
> > PassManagerBuilder::addLTOOptimizationPasses does exit early at -O1 
> > (similar to where we exit early in the new PM for the regular LTO post link 
> > compilation). But the "late" LTO optimization passes are added 
> > unconditionally above -O0. Is this correct/desired? There isn't an 
> > equivalent in the new PM.
> I don't think it was intentional, but I'm not sure I would directly replicate 
> it if it requires adding an entirely new customization point. Is their some 
> simpler way of getting equivalent results at O1?
Yeah we can presumably just add those optimizations to the -O1 early exit path 
in PassBuilder::buildLTODefaultPipeline. I can send a patch (but would like to 
get this one in as it is a bugfix and orthogonal).


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