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Add a pass to relax nullabilities of definitions #9352
As a form of generalization, we can make all definitions nullable (e.g. globals, locals, function params, struct fields, arrays, tags), and insert ref.as_non_null as needed for cases that can't be relaxed (e.g. imported/exported functions, public structs). This transformation is valid since it only introduces ref.as_non_nulls that are no-ops.
The benefits of this are:
When --traps-never-happen is enabled, it allows us to remove the majority of ref.as_non_null instructions with --strip-refining-casts
It exposes more opportunities for locals to share a declaration group
It also exposes more opportunities for type merging by causing more function and struct types to be identical
TypeGeneralizing (which is WIP) may also relax nullability, however it would never 'overgeneralize' and allow something to be nullable that would require inserting ref.as_non_null. So this pass may still be useful even alongside TypeGeneralizing.
In a prototype of this pass, I found that this pass reduces the size of a Google Wasm binary by ~3 percent (both in gzipped and uncompressed size).
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Add RelaxNullability pass (#9349)
Fuzz relax nullability pass (#9353)