use indexed loop instead of ptr bumping

this seems to produce less IR

library/core/src/slice/iter/macros.rs

@@ -192,23 +192,33 @@ macro_rules! iterator {
             }
 
             #[inline]
-            fn fold<B, F>(mut self, init: B, mut f: F) -> B
+            fn fold<B, F>(self, init: B, mut f: F) -> B
                 where
                     F: FnMut(B, Self::Item) -> B,
             {
-                // Handling the 0-len case explicitly and then using a do-while style loop
-                // helps the optimizer. See issue #106288
+                // this implementation consists of the following optimizations compared to the
+                // default implementation:
+                // - do-while loop, as is llvm's preferred loop shape,
+                //   see https://releases.llvm.org/16.0.0/docs/LoopTerminology.html#more-canonical-loops
+                // - bumps an index instead of a pointer since the latter case inhibits
+                //   some optimizations, see #111603
+                // - avoids Option wrapping/matching
                 if is_empty!(self) {
                     return init;
                 }
                 let mut acc = init;
-                // SAFETY: The 0-len case was handled above so one loop iteration is guaranteed.
-                unsafe {
-                    loop {
-                        acc = f(acc, next_unchecked!(self));
-                        if is_empty!(self) {
-                            break;
-                        }
+                let mut i = 0;
+                let len = len!(self);
+                loop {
+                    // SAFETY: the loop iterates `i in 0..len`, which always is in bounds of
+                    // the slice allocation
+                    acc = f(acc, unsafe { & $( $mut_ )? *self.ptr.add(i).as_ptr() });
+                    // SAFETY: `i` can't overflow since it'll only reach usize::MAX if the
+                    // slice had that length, in which case we'll break out of the loop
+                    // after the increment
+                    i = unsafe { i.unchecked_add(1) };
+                    if i == len {
+                        break;
                     }
                 }
                 acc