That's a small enough sub that I can see us reasonably hitting this with regular compilers compiling non-braindead languages, so we need to move up the priority on fixing this.
It's probably a Leo or Melvin thing (unless anyone's see Angel Faus recently) to thump the register spilling code to have a fairly stupid fallback scheme (after X tries, or when we hit double spill) rather than trying to be optimal, but this one's going to need to get addressed.
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