When an instruction is "deleted" from the SIL, it is put into the SILModule::scheduledForDeletion list.
The instructions in this list are eventually deleted for real in SILModule::flushDeletedInsts(), which is called by the pass manager after each pass run.
In other words: instruction deletion is deferred to the end of a pass.
This avoids dangling instruction pointers within the run of a pass and in analysis caches.
Note that the analysis invalidation mechanism ensures that analysis caches are invalidated before flushDeletedInsts().
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