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...ance, accuracy and utility. > Help empower the backends. > Reduce the surface area of the API. > Reduce the dependencies between the layers - of which there are many! My latest patch is an NFC to help address the issue of ambiguity, I have uploaded the patch here: https://reviews.llvm.org/D79002. It's a biggy, adding TargetCostKind as an argument to almost all the get*Cost methods. My hope is that, as well as clarity, it will allow some backends to re-use and correlate costs if they wish. It would also allow adding a hook to query the backend which cost kind is the most important to it...