In addition to simplicity it cuts down on compilation time. You can checkout MLTon or Felix to get a feel for whole program optimizing compilers, they can do op

In addition to simplicity it cuts down on compilation time. You can checkout MLTon or Felix to get a feel for whole program optimizing compilers, they can do optimizations that are impossible without LTO and hard to do with. https://github.com/felix-lang/felix https://github.com/felix-lang/felix http://felix-documentation-master.readthedocs.io/en/latest/masterdirectory.html#specific-documents http://felix-documentation-master.readthedocs.io/en/latest/m... http://mlton.org http://mlton.org