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+ <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#A">A</a> -</b></th></tr>
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<td><a href="#ADCE">ADCE</a></td>
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+ <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#B">B</a> -</b></th></tr>
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+ <td><a href="#BURS">BURS</a></td>
+ <td></td>
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+ <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#C">C</a> -</b></th></tr>
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+ <td><a href="#CSE">CSE</a></td>
+ <td></td>
+ <td></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#D">D</a> -</b></th></tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><a href="#DSA">DSA</a></td>
+ <td><a href="#DSE">DSE</a></td>
+ <td></td>
+ <td></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#I">I</a> -</b></th></tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><a href="#IPA">IPA</a></td>
+ <td><a href="#IPO">IPO</a></td>
+ <td></td>
+ <td></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#L">L</a> -</b></th></tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><a href="#LICM">LICM</a></td>
+ <td><a href="#Load-VN">Load-VN</a></td>
+ <td></td>
+ <td></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#P">P</a> -</b></th></tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><a href="#PRE">PRE</a></td>
+ <td></td>
+ <td></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr><th colspan="8"><b>- <a href="#S">S</a> -</b></th></tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td><a href="#SCCP">SCCP</a></td>
+ <td><a href="#SSA">SSA</a></td>
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- <dt><b>ADCE</b></dt>
- <dd><u>A</u>ggressive <u>D</u>ead <u>C</u>ode <u>E</u>limination</dd>
+ <dt><a name="ADCE"><b>ADCE</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>Aggressive Dead Code Elimination</dd>
+ </dl>
+</div>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="B">- B -</a></div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+ <dl>
+ <dt><a name="BURS"><b>BURS</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>Bottom Up Rewriting System - A method of instruction selection for
+ code generation. An example is the <a
+href="http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/BURG">BURG</a> tool.</dd>
+ </dl>
+</div>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="C">- C -</a></div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+ <dl>
+ <dt><a name="CSE"><b>CSE</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>Common Subexpression Elimination. An optimization that removes common
+ subexpression compuation. For example <tt>(a+b)*(a+b)</tt> has two
+ subexpressions that are the same: <tt>(a+b)</tt>. This optimization would
+ perform the addition only once and then perform the multiply (but only if
+ its compulationally correct/safe).
+ </dl>
+</div>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="D">- D -</a></div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+ <dl>
+ <dt><a name="DSA"><b>DSA</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>Data Structure Analysis</dd>
+ <dt><a name="DSE"><b>DSE</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>Dead Store Elimination</dd>
+ </dl>
+</div>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="I">- I -</a></div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+ <dl>
+ <dt><a name="IPA"><b>IPA</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>Inter-Procedural Analysis. Refers to any variety of code analysis that
+ occurs between procedures, functions or compilation units (modules).</dd>
+ <dt><a name="IPO"><b>IPO</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>Inter-Procedural Optimization. Refers to any variety of code
+ optimization that occurs between procedures, functions or compilation units
+ (modules).</dd>
+ </dl>
+</div>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="L">- L -</a></div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+ <dl>
+ <dt><a name="LICM"><b>LICM</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>Loop Invariant Code Motion</dd>
+ <dt><a name="Load-VN"><b>Load-VN</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>Load Value Numbering</dd>
+ </dl>
+</div>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="P">- P -</a></div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+ <dl>
+ <dt><a name="PRE"><b>PRE</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>Partial Redundancy Elimination</dd>
+ </dl>
+</div>
+<!-- _______________________________________________________________________ -->
+<div class="doc_subsection"><a name="S">- S -</a></div>
+<div class="doc_text">
+ <dl>
+ <dt><a name="SCCP"><b>SCCP</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>Sparse Conditional Constant Propagation
+ <dt><a name="SSA"><b>SSA</b></a></dt>
+ <dd>Static Single Assignment</dd>
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