[SVE] Use only powers of two as possible vscale values #17001
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When analyzing scalable expressions, the analyzer will iterate over a series of known vscale values in the range 1-16. However, we can tighten this range to only values that are a power of two, as stated in the LLVM lang ref and more generally the reference manual.
This comes from a discussion in #16921 (comment)