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Reviewers: t.p.northover, hans, kristof.beyls

Reviewed By: hans

Subscribers: aemerson, rengolin, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36965

llvm-svn: 311539
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Changes to the Arm Targets
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During this release the AArch64 target has:

* Made instruction fusion more aggressive, resulting in speedups
for code making use of AArch64 AES instructions. AES fusion has been
enabled for most Cortex-A cores and the AArch64MacroFusion pass was moved
to the generic MacroFusion pass.
* Added preferred function alignments for most Cortex-A cores.

During this release the ARM target has:

* Improved mixed ARM/Thumb code generation. Some cases in which wrong
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