[APInt] Add APInt::setBits() method to set all bits in range

The current pattern for setting bits in range is typically:

Mask |= APInt::getBitsSet(MaskSizeInBits, LoPos, HiPos);

Which can be particularly slow for large APInts (MaskSizeInBits > 64) as they require the allocation memory for the temporary variable.

This is one of the key compile time issues identified in PR32037.

This patch adds the APInt::setBits() helper method which avoids the temporary memory allocation completely, this first implementation uses setBit() internally instead but already significantly reduces the regression in PR32037 (~10% drop). Additional optimization may be possible.

I investigated whether there is need for APInt::clearBits() and APInt::flipBits() equivalents but haven't seen these patterns to be particularly common, but reusing the code would be trivial.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30265

llvm-svn: 296102

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