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This does three major things: * Enforce the invariant that all strict fields must contain tagged pointers. * Try to predict the tag on bindings in order to omit tag checks. * Allows functions to pass arguments unlifted (call-by-value). The former is "simply" achieved by wrapping any constructor allocations with a case which will evaluate the respective strict bindings. The prediction is done by a new data flow analysis based on the STG representation of a program. This also helps us to avoid generating redudant cases for the above invariant. StrictWorkers are created by W/W directly and SpecConstr indirectly. See the Note [Strict Worker Ids] Other minor changes: * Add StgUtil module containing a few functions needed by, but not specific to the tag analysis. ------------------------- Metric Decrease: T12545 T18698b T18140 T18923 LargeRecord Metric Increase: LargeRecord ManyAlternatives ManyConstructors T10421 T12425 T12707 T13035 T13056 T13253 T13253-spj T13379 T15164 T18282 T18304 T18698a T1969 T20049 T3294 T4801 T5321FD T5321Fun T783 T9233 T9675 T9961 T19695 WWRec -------------------------0e93023e
