Add tier 2 partial evaluation pass.
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Description
Once an optimization pass is in place, it enables external contributors to make improvements.
It happened with the tier 1 specializer and is happening now with the tier 2 optimizer and JIT.
We should add the partial evaluation pass, so that external contributors can help with that.
The aim of the partial evaluation pass is to do computation, allocation and deallocation during optimization, so it doesn't need to be done at runtime.
We should add this pass, starting with a few very simple optimizations as placeholders for the full pass to be added later.
These optimizations should include:
- Float unboxing
- Temporary tuple elimination
We can start with the very simple optimization : BUILD_TUPLE 2; _RETURN_VALUE; UNPACK 2 -> _RETURN_PAIR before adding more complex optimizations in the future.
Linked PRs
- gh-120624
- gh-123652
- gh-124518
- gh-124846
- gh-124910
- gh-126856
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