We use dead code elimination (DCE) throughout JAX core to remove unused computations from Jaxprs. This typically works transparently when we're just using `lax` primitives, but opaque calls to `pallas_call` or `ffi_call` can't be cleaned up this way. For many kernels however, the author will know how to generate a more efficient call for specific patterns of used outputs, so it is useful to provide a mechanism for customizing this behavior.
In https://github.com/jax-ml/jax/pull/22735, I attempted to automatically tackle one specific example of this that comes up frequently, but there have been feature requests for a more general API. This version is bare bones and probably rough around the edges, but it could be a useful starting point for iteration.
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