Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

@brandtbucher pointed out that we could automatically evaluate pure ops in the JIT.

Back when I originally envisioned this in the JIT optimizer, it was way simpler. Right now we have stackrefs which complicate things a little.

The main idea is that fully pure bytecodes can just run their body in the JIT optimizer, allowing for automatic constant prop/evaluation. This also cuts down code duplication and also the amount of human error from manually writing constant propagation code.

We'd have to replace all the stackref functions with the appropriate sym accessing functions, either through macros or the cases generator.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

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Links to previous discussion of this feature:

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Linked PRs

• gh-132732: Automatically constant evaluate pure operations #132733