[GHC] #14372: CMM contains a bunch of tail-merging opportunities

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#14372: CMM contains a bunch of tail-merging opportunities
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        Reporter:  heisenbug         |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  new
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       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.2.1
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Comment (by bgamari):

 I wonder what prior art exists in this area; I'm sure other compilers have
 considered this in the past.

 An interesting and loosely related bit of work that I have seen in the
 past is the work in the LLVM community on a technique they call outlining.
 See the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yorld-WSOeU|talk]] for details.
 This was pursued as a means of reducing code size and is no doubt more
 sophisticated than what Simon was looking for in comment:4, but I thought
 I'd leave the reference here nevertheless.

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