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Backtracking in the Yul optimizer

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Description

Depends on https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/issues/13719.

Slowly evaluate introducing backtracing in the Yul optimizer.
First candidates would be optimizing functions in isolation to evaluate the merits of specializing functions (see e.g. https://github.com/ethereum/solidity/issues/13787) or even inlining in general.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by reading dependency issue #13719 and the referenced function-specialization discussion in issue #13787. Investigate the Yul optimizer's options for evaluating functions in isolation, specialization, or inlining; done means assessing and documenting the merits of introducing backtracking.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
cpp, solidity
Domain
compilers
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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