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<h1>SimplifyTypes</h1>
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<div class="paragraph"><p><a href="SimplifyTypes">SimplifyTypes</a> is an optimization pass for the <a href="SSA">SSA</a>
<a href="IntermediateLanguage">IntermediateLanguage</a>, invoked from <a href="SSASimplify">SSASimplify</a>.</p></div>
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<h2 id="_description">Description</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>This pass computes a "cardinality" of each datatype, which is an
abstraction of the number of values of the datatype.</p></div>
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<span class="monospaced">Zero</span> means the datatype has no values (except for bottom).
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<span class="monospaced">One</span> means the datatype has one value (except for bottom).
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<span class="monospaced">Many</span> means the datatype has many values.
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<div class="paragraph"><p>This pass removes all datatypes whose cardinality is <span class="monospaced">Zero</span> or <span class="monospaced">One</span>
and removes:</p></div>
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components of tuples
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function args
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constructor args
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<div class="paragraph"><p>which are such datatypes.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This pass marks constructors as one of:</p></div>
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<span class="monospaced">Useless</span>: it never appears in a <span class="monospaced">ConApp</span>.
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<span class="monospaced">Transparent</span>: it is the only variant in its datatype and its argument type does not contain any uses of <span class="monospaced">array</span> or <span class="monospaced">vector</span>.
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<span class="monospaced">Useful</span>: otherwise
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<div class="paragraph"><p>This pass also removes <span class="monospaced">Useless</span> and <span class="monospaced">Transparent</span> constructors.</p></div>
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<h2 id="_implementation">Implementation</h2>
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<a href="https://github.com/MLton/mlton/blob/master/mlton/ssa/simplify-types.fun"><span class="monospaced">simplify-types.fun</span></a>
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<h2 id="_details_and_notes">Details and Notes</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>This pass must happen before polymorphic equality is implemented because</p></div>
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it will make polymorphic equality faster because some types are simpler
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it removes uses of polymorphic equality that must return true
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<div class="paragraph"><p>We must keep track of <span class="monospaced">Transparent</span> constructors whose argument type
uses <span class="monospaced">array</span> because of datatypes like the following:</p></div>
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<div class="content"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">datatype</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">T</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">of</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">array</span><span class="w"></span>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Such a datatype has <span class="monospaced">Cardinality.Many</span>, but we cannot eliminate the
datatype and replace the lhs by the rhs, i.e. we must keep the
circularity around.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Must do similar things for <span class="monospaced">vectors</span>.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Also, to eliminate as many <span class="monospaced">Transparent</span> constructors as possible, for
something like the following,</p></div>
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<div class="content"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">datatype</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">T</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">of</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">u</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">array</span><span class="w"></span>
<span class="w">     </span><span class="k">and</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">u</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">U</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">of</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">t</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">vector</span><span class="w"></span>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>we (arbitrarily) expand one of the datatypes first.  The result will
be something like</p></div>
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<div class="content"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="k">datatype</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">u</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">U</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">of</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">u</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">array</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="n">array</span><span class="w"></span>
</pre></div></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>where all uses of <span class="monospaced">t</span> are replaced by <span class="monospaced">u array</span>.</p></div>
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