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Nicholas Nethercote
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It's described as a "backwards compatibility hack to keep the diff small". Removing it requires only a modest amount of churn, and the resulting code is clearer without the invisible derefs.
Please read the rustc-dev-guide chapter on Backend Agnostic Codegen.