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Implement mid level IR between YUL and LL #257

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Currently we translate YUL directly to LLVM. What I'm hoping to do better with an additional IR:

  • Partially recover type information and use integer types narrower than i256 wherever possible
  • Create the obvious place to implement other domain specific optimizations. For example eliminate unnecessary stack variables or recovering pointers and aliasing.

I'm eying to use MLIR (implies writing a YUL dialect). It is well designed and popular. A decent Rust wrapper crate already exists too.

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