Hi Simon,

I have two questions about the Cmm pipeline:

1. I implemented a pass that replaces tail calls with a copy of the entry block 
we're calling to. This is slightly extended version of loopification which will 
hopefully enable further optimisations. Then I noticed that loopification pass 
used to be implemented (cmm/CmmOpt.hs, line 418) but was commented out 
(d92bd17ffd8715f77fd49de0fed6e39c8d0ec28b). There's also a comment: "XXX: 
revisit if we actually want to do this". What was the motivation for removing 
loopification? Is there a reason why we might not want to do it?

2. There is a module cmm/CmmRewriteAssignments.hs, which is not used at the 
moment. What was the motivation for disabling that pass?

Janek

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