The behavior differs between (the present) nightly and rustc 1.45.2; the nightly available when this link was posted matched the 1.45.2 behavior.
The output with 1.45.2 is as follows:
example::clone_concrete:
mov eax, edi
ret
example::clone_abstract:
mov ecx, edi
and ecx, -256
xor eax, eax
xor edx, edx
cmp dil, 1
sete dl
cmove eax, ecx
or eax, edx
ret
Fascinating coincidence! It was probably the LLVM upgrade (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/73526) landing, probably before the comment was even posted (but the nightly would only show up with the upgraded LLVM the next day).
The output with 1.45.2 is as follows: