This consists of 3 parts:
1) Extend CallerAnalysis to also provide information if a function is partially applied
2) A new DeadArgSignatureOpt pass, similar to FunctionSignatureOpts, which just specializes for dead arguments of partially applied functions.
3) Let CapturePropagation eliminate such partial_apply instructions and replace them with a thin_to_thick conversion of the specialized functions.
This optimzation improves benchmarks where static struct or class functions are passed as a closure (e.g. -20% for SortStrings).
Such functions have a additional metatype parameter. We used to create a partial_apply in this case, which allocates a context, etc.
But this is not necessary as the metatype parameter is not used in most cases.
rdar://problem/27513085