Stack layout generator stack compression oddity. #15877
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Noticed in #15844
The thought behind the line changed here was to always minimize the propagated stack, if the required value can be dup'ed ad-hoc, but the counting was off (not even by just 1, but by 2 slots).
However, while this change improves gas cost on some tests, it triggers a stack-too-deep in an external test (this is likely due to a non-local effect of the change, which is hard to directly mitigate).
So I'd tend towards keeping the existing logic and towards fixing this with generally improved stack layout generation in the SSA codegen approach. I'm still pushing a draft PR for now to consider options.