[optimizing] Improve x86 parallel moves/swaps
Add a new constructor to ScratchRegisterScope that will supply a
register if there is a free one, but not spill to force one. Use this
to generated alternate code that doesn't use a temporary, as the
spill/restore of a register generates extra instructions that aren't
necessary on x86.
Here is the benefit for a 32 bit memory-to-memory exchange with no
free registers:
< 50 push eax
< 53 push ebx
< 8B44244C mov eax, [esp + 76]
< 8B5C246C mov ebx, [esp + 108]
< 8944246C mov [esp + 108], eax
< 895C244C mov [esp + 76], ebx
< 5B pop ebx
< 58 pop eax
---
> FF742444 push [esp + 68]
> FF742468 push [esp + 104]
> 8F44244C pop [esp + 72]
> 8F442468 pop [esp + 100]
Avoid using xchg instruction, as it is slow on smaller processors.
Change-Id: Id29ee3abd998577baaee552d55d23e60ae0c7871
Signed-off-by: Mark Mendell <mark.p.mendell@intel.com>
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