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LLVM: elide some loads when lowering
Generally, the load instruction may need to make a copy of an isByRef=true value, such as in the case of the following code: ```zig pub fn swap(comptime T: type, a: *T, b: *T) void { const tmp = a.*; a.* = b.*; b.* = tmp; } ``` However, it only needs to do so if there are any instructions which can possibly write to memory. When calling functions with isByRef=true parameters, the AIR code that is generated looks like loads followed directly by call. This allows for a peephole optimization when lowering loads: if the load instruction operates on an isByRef=true type and dies before any side effects occur, then we can safely lower the load as a no-op that returns its operand. This is one out of three changes I intend to make to address #11498. However I will put these changes in separate branches and merge them separately so that we can have three independent points on the perf charts.
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