Do more aggressive lambda lifting #1886
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With @vouillon we realized that the
Lambda_lifting_simple
pass that is performed by double translation makes some programs significantly faster. We measured roughly a 1.45 speedup on a large (proprietary) Bonsai benchmark. Presumably V8 is much faster with more toplevel functions and less nested closures.Making this a draft PR for now because:
We probably need to do some measurements before merging. (And maybe with other engines.)