Optimize away immediately-called delegate literals?

[Brad Roberts]

On 3/12/2012 8:10 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Brad Roberts" <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>
>> See also: bug 4440
>>
>> The patch in there, if it hasn't bit rotten to badly (I suspect it has) 
>> will handle _this_ case.  But almost no other
>> case of inlining delegates.
>>
>> It'd be a good area for someone who wants an interesting and non-trivial 
>> problem to dig into.  It wouldn't touch all
>> that much of the codebase as the inliner is fairly self-contained.  At 
>> least, that's what I recall from when I looked at
>> this stuff a couple years ago.
>>
> 
> Do you think that patch would be a good starting place for further work, or 
> would a proper solution likely necessitate an entirely different approach?
> 

I suspect that, to fix it for a broader set of cases, it'll need much larger changes.  During those changes the simple
version in that patch would likely disappear.  But take that all with a huge grain of salt.