On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote:

> * Jonathan S. Shapiro:
>
> > The tree shaking idea is independent of singularity. Tree shaking can be
> > thought of as a very aggressive form of dead code elimination. What's
> been
> > said in public papers is that unreferenced classes, methods, and fields
> are
> > removed. When done transitively, this can eliminate a *lot* of code.
>
> Isn't thos a bit like MLton's RemoveUnused pass?
> <http://mlton.org/RemoveUnused>
>
>
Yes. Not entirely surprising, since Tarditi worked on MLton as well.
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