diff --git a/lib/terser.rb b/lib/terser.rb
index 0498742..6f43ecc 100644
--- a/lib/terser.rb
+++ b/lib/terser.rb
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ class Error < StandardError; end
       :negate_iife => true, # Negate immediately invoked function expressions to avoid extra parens
       :pure_getters => false, # Assume that object property access does not have any side-effects
       :pure_funcs => nil, # List of functions without side-effects. Can safely discard function calls when the result value is not used
+      :pure_new => false, # List of functions without side-effects. Can safely discard function calls when the result value is not used
       :drop_console => false, # Drop calls to console.* functions
       :keep_fargs => false, # Preserve unused function arguments
       :keep_classnames => false, # Prevents discarding or mangling of class names. Pass a regular expression to only keep class names matching that regex.
diff --git a/spec/terser_spec.rb b/spec/terser_spec.rb
index 1274c67..d491180 100644
--- a/spec/terser_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/terser_spec.rb
@@ -313,6 +313,27 @@
     end
   end
 
+  describe 'pure_new' do
+    let(:code) do
+      <<-JS
+        new function() {};
+        (new function() {
+          this.pass = () => console.log("PASS");
+        }).pass()
+      JS
+    end
+
+    it "when compress option is set" do
+      minified = Terser.compile(code, :compress => { :pure_new => true })
+      expect(minified).to match("(new function(){this.pass=()=>console.log(\"PASS\")}).pass();")
+    end
+
+    it "when compress option is false" do
+      minified = Terser.compile(code, :compress => { :pure_new => false })
+      expect(minified).to match("new function(){},(new function(){this.pass=()=>console.log(\"PASS\")}).pass();")
+    end
+  end
+
   it "can be configured to output only ASCII" do
     code = "function emoji() { return '\\ud83c\\ude01'; }"
     minified = Terser.compile(code, :output => { :ascii_only => true })