This field is just saving (typically) a single pointer indirection; and IMO
makes the logic and graph relations unnecessarily complicated. I am also
considering adding choking logic to decoders and encoders as well, which this
field would get in the way of.
Apart from the unchoking logic in unchoke_for_input(), the only other place
that uses this field is the (cold) function check_acyclic(), which can be
served just as well with a simple function to do the graph traversal there.
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