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Disable pathologically expensive
SimplifySelectOps
optimization
`SimplifySelectOps` is a late optimization in LLVM that attempts to translate `select(C, load(A), load(B))` into `load(select(C, A, B))`. However, in order for it to do this optimization, it needs to check that `C` does not depend on the result of `load(A)` or `load(B)`. Unfortunately (unlikely Julia and LLVM at the IR level), LLVM does not have a topological order of statements computed at this stage of the compiler, so LLVM needs to iterate through all statements in the function in order to perform this legality check. For large functions, this is extremely expensive, accounting for the majority of all compilation time for such functions. On the other hand, the optimization itself is minor, allowing at most the elision of one additional load (and doesn't fire particularly often, because the middle end can perform similar optimizations). Until there is a proper solution in LLVM, simply disable this optimizations, making LLVM several orders of magnitude faster on real world benchmarks. X-ref: llvm#60132
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