plutus-ir: allow lets to be strict or non-strict #1127
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This implements a feature I discussed before on the mailing list: non-strict (possibly should be CBN) let-bindings in PIR.
This has a couple of advantages:
plutus-tx
code significantly, removing some restrictions in the process.There is one con at the moment:
I also fixed the value check in PIR. In particular, it thought that variables were values, which is definitely wrong. As a result we now compile a lot more cases non-strictly, in particular a lot of trivial cases on booleans. But again, I think this doesn't matter so much and it's much more correct.
We still have logic for compiling cases non-strictly in
plutus-tx
. I want to add case expressions to PIR to handle this, but I'll do that in a separate PR.