Regardless of whether this is enough of an improvement for the PR, it should be done. Whenever a relation is registered with the oracle, it walks the dominator tree trying to apply any transitives it can find. FIrst, it should check whether the operands are already in any relation. If neither operand is in a relation, we can conclude there cannot be any transitives. this is a simple bitmask check. The second thing this patch does is adjust the set_relation routine to return NULL if the relation being applied already exists.  ie, we don't need to set the relation or do any additionalwork if the relation is already true. This will also prevent additional calls to the register transitives. This provides some marginal improvements across the board, and noticeable improvements in the testcase. Bootstrapped on    x86_64-pc-linux-gnu with no regressions. Pushed. Andrew