Overview of Possible Transformations

This is an overview of the transformations that could be interesting for elm-optimize

First, we can start with [Robin's article](explored by Robin in this dev.to post)

Implemented as variantShapes.ts

Currently the Elm compiler will generate objects that match the shape of a given type.

So, Maybe looks like this:

var elm$core$Maybe$Just = function (a) {
    return {$: 0, a: a};
};

var elm$core$Maybe$Nothing = {$: 1};

However, the V8 engine is likely better able to optimize these objects if they have the same shape.

So, this transformation fills out the rest of the variants with field: null so that they have the same shape.

var elm$core$Maybe$Just = function (a) {
    return {$: 0, a: a};
};

var elm$core$Maybe$Nothing = {$: 1, a: null};

This does require information from the Elm code itself, which we're currently getting through elm-tree-sitter.

initial

_List_fromArray(['a', 'b', 'c']);

with InlineMode.UsingConsFunc

_List_cons("a", _List_cons("b", _List_cons("c", _List_Nil)))
`

with InlineMode.UsingLiteralObjects(Mode.Prod)

({ : 1, a: "a", b: { : 1, a: "b", b: { $: 1, a: "c", b: _List_Nil } } });

with InlineMode.UsingLiteralObjects(Mode.Dev)

({ : "::", a: "a", b: { : "::", a: "b", b: { $: "::", a: "c", b: _List_Nil } } });





### Applying Functions Directly