Unused instances of de-referenced classes are not dead code eliminated

[WearyMonkey]

Input:

// ==ClosureCompiler==
// @compilation_level ADVANCED_OPTIMIZATIONS
// @output_file_name default.js
// @language_out ECMASCRIPT_2015
// ==/ClosureCompiler==

const A = class {
  constructor(opts) {
  }
};

new A(1);

Expected output:

'use strict';

Actual output:

'use strict';new class{constructor(){}}(1);

Works as expected with language_out ECMASCRIPT5, but any language_out ECMASCRIPT_2015 or above does not DCE the unused instance.

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[brad4d]

By using --print_source_after_each_pass I found that after transpilation and inlining the compiler converts the code above to new function(){}(1); for ES5 output or new class {constructor(){}}(1);.

Then the peepholeOptimizations pass knows how to remove new function(){}(1);, but apparently does not know it is safe to remove new class {constructor(){}}(1);.