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15 <h2>Table Of Contents</h2>
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19 <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#A">A</a> -</b></th></tr>
21 <td><a href="#ADCE">ADCE</a></td>
23 <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#B">B</a> -</b></th></tr>
25 <td><a href="#BURS">BURS</a></td>
27 <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#C">C</a> -</b></th></tr>
29 <td><a href="#CSE">CSE</a></td>
31 <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#D">D</a> -</b></th></tr>
33 <td><a href="#DAG">DAG</a></td>
34 <td><a href="#Derived_Pointer">Derived Pointer</a></td>
35 <td><a href="#DSA">DSA</a></td>
36 <td><a href="#DSE">DSE</a></td>
38 <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#F">F</a> -</b></th></tr>
40 <td><a href="#FCA">FCA</a></td>
42 <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#G">G</a> -</b></th></tr>
44 <td><a href="#GC">GC</a></td>
46 <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#I">I</a> -</b></th></tr>
48 <td><a href="#IPA">IPA</a></td>
49 <td><a href="#IPO">IPO</a></td>
50 <td><a href="#ISel">ISel</a></td>
52 <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#L">L</a> -</b></th></tr>
54 <td><a href="#LCSSA">LCSSA</a></td>
55 <td><a href="#LICM">LICM</a></td>
56 <td><a href="#Load-VN">Load-VN</a></td>
57 <td><a href="#LTO">LTO</a></td>
59 <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#M">M</a> -</b></th></tr>
61 <td><a href="#MC">MC</a></td>
63 <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#O">O</a> -</b></th></tr>
65 <td><a href="#Object_Pointer">Object Pointer</a></td>
67 <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#P">P</a> -</b></th></tr>
69 <td><a href="#PRE">PRE</a></td>
71 <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#R">R</a> -</b></th></tr>
73 <td><a href="#RAUW">RAUW</a></td>
74 <td><a href="#Reassociation">Reassociation</a></td>
75 <td><a href="#Root">Root</a></td>
77 <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#S">S</a> -</b></th></tr>
79 <td><a href="#Safe_Point">Safe Point</a></td>
80 <td><a href="#SCC">SCC</a></td>
81 <td><a href="#SCCP">SCCP</a></td>
82 <td><a href="#SDISel">SDISel</a></td>
83 <td><a href="#SRoA">SRoA</a></td>
84 <td><a href="#Stack_Map">Stack Map</a></td>
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94 <h3><a name="A">- A -</a></h3>
97 <dt><a name="ADCE"><b>ADCE</b></a></dt>
98 <dd>Aggressive Dead Code Elimination</dd>
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102 <h3><a name="B">- B -</a></h3>
105 <dt><a name="BURS"><b>BURS</b></a></dt>
106 <dd>Bottom Up Rewriting System—A method of instruction selection for
107 code generation. An example is the <a
108 href="http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/BURG">BURG</a> tool.</dd>
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112 <h3><a name="C">- C -</a></h3>
115 <dt><a name="CSE"><b>CSE</b></a></dt>
116 <dd>Common Subexpression Elimination. An optimization that removes common
117 subexpression compuation. For example <tt>(a+b)*(a+b)</tt> has two
118 subexpressions that are the same: <tt>(a+b)</tt>. This optimization would
119 perform the addition only once and then perform the multiply (but only if
120 it's compulationally correct/safe).
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124 <h3><a name="D">- D -</a></h3>
127 <dt><a name="DAG"><b>DAG</b></a></dt>
128 <dd>Directed Acyclic Graph</dd>
129 <dt><a name="Derived_Pointer"><b>Derived Pointer</b></a></dt>
130 <dd>A pointer to the interior of an object, such that a garbage collector
131 is unable to use the pointer for reachability analysis. While a derived
132 pointer is live, the corresponding object pointer must be kept in a root,
133 otherwise the collector might free the referenced object. With copying
134 collectors, derived pointers pose an additional hazard that they may be
135 invalidated at any <a href="Safe_Point">safe point</a>. This term is used in
136 opposition to <a href="#Object_Pointer">object pointer</a>.</dd>
137 <dt><a name="DSA"><b>DSA</b></a></dt>
138 <dd>Data Structure Analysis</dd>
139 <dt><a name="DSE"><b>DSE</b></a></dt>
140 <dd>Dead Store Elimination</dd>
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144 <h3><a name="F">- F -</a></h3>
147 <dt><a name="FCA"><b>FCA</b></a></dt>
148 <dd>First Class Aggregate</dd>
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152 <h3><a name="G">- G -</a></h3>
155 <dt><a name="GC"><b>GC</b></a></dt>
156 <dd>Garbage Collection. The practice of using reachability analysis instead
157 of explicit memory management to reclaim unused memory.</dd>
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161 <h3><a name="H">- H -</a></h3>
164 <dt><a name="Heap"><b>Heap</b></a></dt>
165 <dd>In garbage collection, the region of memory which is managed using
166 reachability analysis.</dd>
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170 <h3><a name="I">- I -</a></h3>
173 <dt><a name="IPA"><b>IPA</b></a></dt>
174 <dd>Inter-Procedural Analysis. Refers to any variety of code analysis that
175 occurs between procedures, functions or compilation units (modules).</dd>
176 <dt><a name="IPO"><b>IPO</b></a></dt>
177 <dd>Inter-Procedural Optimization. Refers to any variety of code
178 optimization that occurs between procedures, functions or compilation units
180 <dt><a name="ISel"><b>ISel</b></a></dt>
181 <dd>Instruction Selection.</dd>
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185 <h3><a name="L">- L -</a></h3>
188 <dt><a name="LCSSA"><b>LCSSA</b></a></dt>
189 <dd>Loop-Closed Static Single Assignment Form</dd>
190 <dt><a name="LICM"><b>LICM</b></a></dt>
191 <dd>Loop Invariant Code Motion</dd>
192 <dt><a name="Load-VN"><b>Load-VN</b></a></dt>
193 <dd>Load Value Numbering</dd>
194 <dt><a name="LTO"><b>LTO</b></a></dt>
195 <dd>Link-Time Optimization</dd>
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199 <h3><a name="M">- M -</a></h3>
202 <dt><a name="MC"><b>MC</b></a></dt>
203 <dd>Machine Code</dd>
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207 <h3><a name="O">- O -</a></h3>
210 <dt><a name="Object_Pointer"><b>Object Pointer</b></a></dt>
211 <dd>A pointer to an object such that the garbage collector is able to trace
212 references contained within the object. This term is used in opposition to
213 <a href="#Derived_Pointer">derived pointer</a>.</dd>
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218 <h3><a name="P">- P -</a></h3>
221 <dt><a name="PRE"><b>PRE</b></a></dt>
222 <dd>Partial Redundancy Elimination</dd>
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227 <h3><a name="R">- R -</a></h3>
230 <dt><a name="RAUW"><b>RAUW</b></a></dt> <dd>An abbreviation for Replace
231 All Uses With. The functions User::replaceUsesOfWith(),
232 Value::replaceAllUsesWith(), and Constant::replaceUsesOfWithOnConstant()
233 implement the replacement of one Value with another by iterating over its
234 def/use chain and fixing up all of the pointers to point to the new value.
235 See also <a href="ProgrammersManual.html#iterate_chains">def/use chains</a>.
237 <dt><a name="Reassociation"><b>Reassociation</b></a></dt> <dd>Rearranging
238 associative expressions to promote better redundancy elimination and other
239 optimization. For example, changing (A+B-A) into (B+A-A), permitting it to
240 be optimized into (B+0) then (B).</dd>
241 <dt><a name="Root"><b>Root</b></a></dt> <dd>In garbage collection, a
242 pointer variable lying outside of the <a href="#Heap">heap</a> from which
243 the collector begins its reachability analysis. In the context of code
244 generation, "root" almost always refers to a "stack root" -- a local or
245 temporary variable within an executing function.</dd>
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250 <h3><a name="S">- S -</a></h3>
253 <dt><a name="Safe_Point"><b>Safe Point</b></a></dt>
254 <dd>In garbage collection, it is necessary to identify <a href="#Root">stack
255 roots</a> so that reachability analysis may proceed. It may be infeasible to
256 provide this information for every instruction, so instead the information
257 may is calculated only at designated safe points. With a copying collector,
258 <a href="#Derived_Pointers">derived pointers</a> must not be retained across
259 safe points and <a href="#Object_Pointers">object pointers</a> must be
260 reloaded from stack roots.</dd>
261 <dt><a name="SDISel"><b>SDISel</b></a></dt>
262 <dd>Selection DAG Instruction Selection.</dd>
263 <dt><a name="SCC"><b>SCC</b></a></dt>
264 <dd>Strongly Connected Component</dd>
265 <dt><a name="SCCP"><b>SCCP</b></a></dt>
266 <dd>Sparse Conditional Constant Propagation</dd>
267 <dt><a name="SRoA"><b>SRoA</b></a></dt>
268 <dd>Scalar Replacement of Aggregates</dd>
269 <dt><a name="SSA"><b>SSA</b></a></dt>
270 <dd>Static Single Assignment</dd>
271 <dt><a name="Stack_Map"><b>Stack Map</b></a></dt>
272 <dd>In garbage collection, metadata emitted by the code generator which
273 identifies <a href="#Root">roots</a> within the stack frame of an executing
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