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Enum should prefer discriminant zero for niche
Given an enum with unassigned zero-discriminant, rust should prefer it for niche selection.
Zero as discriminant for `Option<Enum>` makes it possible for LLVM to optimize resulting asm.
- Eliminate branch when expected value coincides.
- Use smaller instruction `test eax, eax` instead of `cmp eax, ?`
- Possible interaction with zeroed memory?
Example:
```rust
pub enum Size {
One = 1,
Two = 2,
Three = 3,
}
pub fn handle(x: Option<Size>) -> u8 {
match x {
None => {0}
Some(size) => {size as u8}
}
}
```
In this case discriminant zero is available as a niche.
Above example on nightly:
```asm
mov eax, edi
cmp al, 4
jne .LBB0_2
xor eax, eax
.LBB0_2:
ret
```
PR:
```asm
mov eax, edi
ret
```
I created this PR because I had a performance regression when I tried to use an enum to represent legal grapheme byte-length for utf8.
Using an enum instead of `NonZeroU8` [here](
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