[YANGTOOLS-1209] Track substatement independence in StatementContextBase

Relates — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:15:08 +0000

When we are considering a statement for reuse of EffectiveStatement, we need to consult both the statement itself and its substatements.

The substatement consultation is very rudimentary: we only deal with the case on empty statements and fall back to normal instantiation for everything else.

There is a middle step we can take: if all substatements are CONTEXT_INDEPENDENT or IGNORE, we can reuse all of the substatements, skipping their instantiation.

While this is very similar to the aims of ~~YANGTOOLS-1067~~, this mechanism should kick in sooner, i.e. when the statement completes EFFECTIVE_MODEL, we can determine the outcome and store it as a single bit. Subsequent (recursive) checks will use this cached value and will apply to all copy operations. ~~YANGTOOLS-1067~~ then deals with the case when all substatements (including nominally non-reusable DECLARED_COPY) determine they can be reused for a particular copy operation (on a case-by-case basis).

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[YANGTOOLS-1209] Track substatement independence in StatementContextBase