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26 <h1>RemoveUnused</h1>
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31 <div class="paragraph"><p><a href="RemoveUnused">RemoveUnused</a> is an optimization pass for both the <a href="SSA">SSA</a> and
32 <a href="SSA2">SSA2</a> <a href="IntermediateLanguage">IntermediateLanguage</a>s, invoked from <a href="SSASimplify">SSASimplify</a> and
33 <a href="SSA2Simplify">SSA2Simplify</a>.</p></div>
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37 <h2 id="_description">Description</h2>
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39 <div class="paragraph"><p>This pass aggressively removes unused:</p></div>
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43 datatypes
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88 handlers from non-tail calls (mayRaise analysis)
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93 continuations from non-tail calls (mayReturn analysis)
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100 <h2 id="_implementation">Implementation</h2>
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105 <a href="https://github.com/MLton/mlton/blob/master/mlton/ssa/remove-unused.fun"><span class="monospaced">remove-unused.fun</span></a>
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110 <a href="https://github.com/MLton/mlton/blob/master/mlton/ssa/remove-unused2.fun"><span class="monospaced">remove-unused2.fun</span></a>
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117 <h2 id="_details_and_notes">Details and Notes</h2>
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