cmd/compile: optimize comparisons using load merging where available
Multi-byte comparison operations were used on amd64, arm64, i386
and s390x for comparisons with constant arrays, but only amd64 and
i386 for comparisons with string constants. This CL combines the
check for platform capability, since they have the same requirements,
and also enables both on ppc64le which also supports load merging.
Note that these optimizations currently use little endian byte order
which results in byte reversal instructions on s390x. This should
be fixed at some point.
Change-Id: Ie612d13359b50c77f4d7c6e73fea4a59fa11f322
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/102558
Run-TryBot: Michael Munday <mike.munday@ibm.com>
TryBot-Result: Gobot Gobot <gobot@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Keith Randall <khr@golang.org>