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Alberto Donizetti a0453a180f cmd/compile: combine x*n + y*n into (x+y)*n
There are a few cases where this can be useful. Apart from the obvious
(and silly)

  100*n + 200*n

where we generate one IMUL instead of two, consider:

  15*n + 31*n

Currently, the compiler strength-reduces both imuls, generating:

    0x0000 00000	MOVQ	"".n+8(SP), AX
	0x0005 00005 	MOVQ	AX, CX
	0x0008 00008 	SHLQ	$4, AX
	0x000c 00012 	SUBQ	CX, AX
	0x000f 00015 	MOVQ	CX, DX
	0x0012 00018 	SHLQ	$5, CX
	0x0016 00022 	SUBQ	DX, CX
	0x0019 00025 	ADDQ	CX, AX
	0x001c 00028 	MOVQ	AX, "".~r1+16(SP)
	0x0021 00033 	RET

But combining the imuls is both faster and shorter:

	0x0000 00000	MOVQ	"".n+8(SP), AX
	0x0005 00005 	IMULQ	$46, AX
	0x0009 00009	MOVQ	AX, "".~r1+16(SP)
	0x000e 00014 	RET

even without strength-reduction.

Moreover, consider:

  5*n + 7*(n+1) + 11*(n+2)

We already have a rule that rewrites 7(n+1) into 7n+7, so the
generated code (without imuls merging) looks like this:

	0x0000 00000 	MOVQ	"".n+8(SP), AX
	0x0005 00005 	LEAQ	(AX)(AX*4), CX
	0x0009 00009 	MOVQ	AX, DX
	0x000c 00012 	NEGQ	AX
	0x000f 00015 	LEAQ	(AX)(DX*8), AX
	0x0013 00019 	ADDQ	CX, AX
	0x0016 00022 	LEAQ	(DX)(CX*2), CX
	0x001a 00026 	LEAQ	29(AX)(CX*1), AX
	0x001f 00031 	MOVQ	AX, "".~r1+16(SP)

But with imuls merging, the 5n, 7n and 11n factors get merged, and the
generated code looks like this:

	0x0000 00000 	MOVQ	"".n+8(SP), AX
	0x0005 00005 	IMULQ	$23, AX
	0x0009 00009 	ADDQ	$29, AX
	0x000d 00013 	MOVQ	AX, "".~r1+16(SP)
	0x0012 00018 	RET

Which is both faster and shorter; that's also the exact same code that
clang and the intel c compiler generate for the above expression.

Change-Id: Ib4d5503f05d2f2efe31a1be14e2fe6cac33730a9
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Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>
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