This got brought up earlier today as a potential optimisation. This change documents why it is not viable, and hopefully clears up some performance implications of using IRDecoder, namely that its decoding costs do not amortise.
Signed-off-by: Ophestra <cat@gensokyo.uk>
This should hopefully provide good separation between the artifact curing backend implementation and the (still work in progress) language. Making the IR parseable also guarantees uniqueness of the representation.
Signed-off-by: Ophestra <cat@gensokyo.uk>