AFAIK this is a heuristic, not a category. The underlying grammar would be preserved.
Personally I thought we were way too close to perfect to make meaningful progress on compilation, but that’s probably just naïveté
Personally I thought we were way too close to perfect to make meaningful progress on compilation, but that’s probably just naïveté
Even just looking at inlining for size, there are multiple recent studies showing ~10+% improvement (https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3503222.3507744, https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.04808).
There is a massive amount of headroom, and even tiny bits still matter as ~0.5% gains on code size, or especially performance, can be huge.