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Re:Introducing .NET IL Linker by cwzwarich on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @03:57PM (#15135429)
It's an old Lisp term going back decades. Strictly speaking it's not the same as interprocedural DCE, because due to the dynamic features of Lisps you might need the user to specify the extent to which they are willing to disable the dynamic features to save space.
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Re:Introducing .NET IL Linker by mitchty on Wednesday August 30, 2017 @08:07PM (#15137154)
Gotcha, would it be fair to characterize it as tree shaking is more white listing things that have been used versus eliminating code paths that cannot be accessed?
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