JVM_IR: Optimize null checks.

Introduce lowering to remove null checks for primitive type
expressions and replace them with true/false. Side-effects
are preserved.

Generate ifnull/ifnonnull instructions for null checks instead
of materializing a null literal for an equality check.
This commit is contained in:
Mads Ager
2019-01-11 13:56:11 +01:00
committed by Mikhael Bogdanov
parent f5312f42c5
commit 690b8e0ac9
35 changed files with 240 additions and 106 deletions
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var result = "fail 1"
fun withSideEffect() : Int {
result = "OK"
return 42
}
fun box(): String {
if (withSideEffect() == null) {
return "fail 2"
}
if (result != "OK") {
return "fail 3"
}
result = "fail 4"
if (withSideEffect() != null) {
return result
}
return result
}