Merge pull request #24362 from JuliaLang/jn/infer-constants

inference: IPO constant propagation
JuliaLang · Dec 5, 2017 · 9fe9d2c · 9fe9d2c
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@@ -433,6 +433,13 @@ Compiler/Runtime improvements
     exceeds the cost of setting up and issuing a subroutine
     call. ([#22210], [#22732])
 
+  * Inference recursion-detection heuristics are now more precise,
+    allowing them to be triggered less often, but being more agressive when they
+    are triggered to drive the inference computation to a solution ([#23912]).
+
+  * Inference now propagates constants inter-procedurally, and can compute
+    various constants expressions at compile-time ([#24362]).
+
 Deprecated or removed
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