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| 26 | <h1>Useless</h1>\r | |
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| 30 | <div class="sectionbody">\r | |
| 31 | <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="Useless">Useless</a> is an optimization pass for the <a href="SSA">SSA</a>\r | |
| 32 | <a href="IntermediateLanguage">IntermediateLanguage</a>, invoked from <a href="SSASimplify">SSASimplify</a>.</p></div>\r | |
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| 35 | <div class="sect1">\r | |
| 36 | <h2 id="_description">Description</h2>\r | |
| 37 | <div class="sectionbody">\r | |
| 38 | <div class="paragraph"><p>This pass:</p></div>\r | |
| 39 | <div class="ulist"><ul>\r | |
| 40 | <li>\r | |
| 41 | <p>\r | |
| 42 | removes components of tuples that are constants (use unification)\r | |
| 43 | </p>\r | |
| 44 | </li>\r | |
| 45 | <li>\r | |
| 46 | <p>\r | |
| 47 | removes function arguments that are constants\r | |
| 48 | </p>\r | |
| 49 | </li>\r | |
| 50 | <li>\r | |
| 51 | <p>\r | |
| 52 | builds some kind of dependence graph where\r | |
| 53 | </p>\r | |
| 54 | <div class="ulist"><ul>\r | |
| 55 | <li>\r | |
| 56 | <p>\r | |
| 57 | a value of ground type is useful if it is an arg to a primitive\r | |
| 58 | </p>\r | |
| 59 | </li>\r | |
| 60 | <li>\r | |
| 61 | <p>\r | |
| 62 | a tuple is useful if it contains a useful component\r | |
| 63 | </p>\r | |
| 64 | </li>\r | |
| 65 | <li>\r | |
| 66 | <p>\r | |
| 67 | a constructor is useful if it contains a useful component or is used in a <span class="monospaced">Case</span> transfer\r | |
| 68 | </p>\r | |
| 69 | </li>\r | |
| 70 | </ul></div>\r | |
| 71 | </li>\r | |
| 72 | </ul></div>\r | |
| 73 | <div class="paragraph"><p>If a useful tuple is coerced to another useful tuple, then all of\r | |
| 74 | their components must agree (exactly). It is trivial to convert a\r | |
| 75 | useful value to a useless one.</p></div>\r | |
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| 78 | <div class="sect1">\r | |
| 79 | <h2 id="_implementation">Implementation</h2>\r | |
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| 81 | <div class="ulist"><ul>\r | |
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| 84 | <a href="https://github.com/MLton/mlton/blob/master/mlton/ssa/useless.fun"><span class="monospaced">useless.fun</span></a>\r | |
| 85 | </p>\r | |
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| 90 | <div class="sect1">\r | |
| 91 | <h2 id="_details_and_notes">Details and Notes</h2>\r | |
| 92 | <div class="sectionbody">\r | |
| 93 | <div class="paragraph"><p>It is also trivial to convert a useful tuple to one of its useful\r | |
| 94 | components — but this seems hard.</p></div>\r | |
| 95 | <div class="paragraph"><p>Suppose that you have a <span class="monospaced">ref</span>/<span class="monospaced">array</span>/<span class="monospaced">vector</span> that is useful, but the\r | |
| 96 | components aren’t — then the components are converted to type <span class="monospaced">unit</span>,\r | |
| 97 | and any primitive args must be as well.</p></div>\r | |
| 98 | <div class="paragraph"><p>Unify all handler arguments so that <span class="monospaced">raise</span>/<span class="monospaced">handle</span> has a consistent\r | |
| 99 | calling convention.</p></div>\r | |
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