From 43bce1f39f4b1cd536ff6448cc7699db4536a217 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: chenyu <chenyu@fastmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2025 11:25:53 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] delete View minify [pr] (#12538)

---
 test/unit/test_shapetracker.py |  6 ------
 test/unit/test_view.py         | 19 -------------------
 tinygrad/shape/shapetracker.py |  1 -
 tinygrad/shape/view.py         |  5 -----
 4 files changed, 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/test/unit/test_shapetracker.py b/test/unit/test_shapetracker.py
index 48ca5f449e..ec7b56a20f 100644
--- a/test/unit/test_shapetracker.py
+++ b/test/unit/test_shapetracker.py
@@ -175,12 +175,6 @@ class TestRealSimplifies(unittest.TestCase):
       View.create((8, 3, 3, 11, 2, 28), (924, 308, 0, 28, 0, 1), 0, None),
       View.create((8, 1, 6, 10, 28, 3, 2, 1), (5544, 0, 0, 56, 1, 1848, 672, 0), 0, None)))
 
-class TestViewMinify(unittest.TestCase):
-  def test_minifies(self):
-    assert len(View.create((10,10)).minify().shape) == 1
-    assert len(View.create((10,10)).permute((1,0)).minify().shape) == 2
-    assert len(View.create((10,10,10,10)).permute((1,0,2,3)).minify().shape) == 3
-
 class TestIndexExpressions2d(unittest.TestCase):
   def setUp(self):
     shapes = [(30, 5), (15, 10), (15, 1), (5, 10), (5, 1)] # Make sure dim0 is a multiple of 5, one of the tests divides this dimension by 5
diff --git a/test/unit/test_view.py b/test/unit/test_view.py
index 8929418ab4..cc50120519 100644
--- a/test/unit/test_view.py
+++ b/test/unit/test_view.py
@@ -10,25 +10,6 @@ class TestView(unittest.TestCase):
     v = View.create(shape=(4,3,2), strides=(1,4,10), mask=((0,4),(0,3),(0,2)))
     self.assertIsNone(v.mask)
 
-  def test_minify_zero_strided_dims(self):
-    target = View.create(shape=(2,2), strides=(30,2), offset=7, mask=None)
-    v = View.create(shape=(2,1,2), strides=(30,0,2), offset=7, mask=None)
-    self.assertEqual(v.minify(), target)
-    v = View.create(shape=(1,2,2), strides=(0,30,2), offset=7, mask=None)
-    self.assertEqual(v.minify(), target)
-    v = View.create(shape=(2,2,1), strides=(30,2,0), offset=7, mask=None)
-    self.assertEqual(v.minify(), target)
-    v = View.create(shape=(2,1,1,2), strides=(30,0,0,2), offset=7, mask=None)
-    self.assertEqual(v.minify(), target)
-    v = View.create(shape=(1,1,2,2), strides=(0,0,30,2), offset=7, mask=None)
-    self.assertEqual(v.minify(), target)
-    v = View.create(shape=(2,2,1,1), strides=(30,2,0,0), offset=7, mask=None)
-    self.assertEqual(v.minify(), target)
-    v = View.create(shape=(1,2,2,1), strides=(0,30,2,0), offset=7, mask=None)
-    self.assertEqual(v.minify(), target)
-    v = View.create(shape=(1,2,1,2), strides=(0,30,0,2), offset=7, mask=None)
-    self.assertEqual(v.minify(), target)
-
   def test_empty_mask_contiguous(self):
     v1 = View.create(shape=(2,2,2), strides=(4,2,1), mask=None)
     v2 = View.create(shape=(2,2,2), strides=(4,2,1), mask=((0,2),(0,2),(0,2)))
diff --git a/tinygrad/shape/shapetracker.py b/tinygrad/shape/shapetracker.py
index ebca825426..2f04cea468 100644
--- a/tinygrad/shape/shapetracker.py
+++ b/tinygrad/shape/shapetracker.py
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ from tinygrad.uop.ops import UOp, Ops, graph_rewrite, Variable, sint, sint_to_uo
 def views_to_valid_uop(views: tuple[View, ...], _idxs:tuple[UOp, ...]|None=None) -> UOp:
   idx = views[-1].to_valid_uop(_idxs)
   for view in reversed(views[0:-1]):
-    view = view.minify()
     idx = view.to_valid_uop([sint_to_uop(i) for i in unravel(view.shape, idx)])
   with Context(TRACK_MATCH_STATS=0):
     return graph_rewrite(idx, sym, name="indexing sym @ 1")
diff --git a/tinygrad/shape/view.py b/tinygrad/shape/view.py
index 2ef2a08b1f..82a9147352 100644
--- a/tinygrad/shape/view.py
+++ b/tinygrad/shape/view.py
@@ -226,11 +226,6 @@ class View:
 
     return View.create(vm1.shape, tuple(strides), ssimplify(sum(o * s for o, s in zip(origin, vm2.strides)) + vm2.offset))
 
-  @functools.cache  # pylint: disable=method-cache-max-size-none
-  def minify(self):
-    min_shape = tuple(x[0] for x in merge_dims(self.shape, self.strides, self.mask))
-    return nv if (nv := self.reshape(min_shape)) else self
-
   def __unsafe_resize(self, arg: tuple[tuple[sint, sint], ...], mask=None) -> View:
     offset = sum([s * x[0] for s, x in zip(self.strides,arg)])
     if self.mask: