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Re:Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer by inDigiNeous on Thursday May 05, 2016 @06:44PM (#11640245)
First time I'm hearing about SSA. Is it something me as a coder should be thinking about while writing code, or is it purely a compiler phase ? Thanks.
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Re:Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer by cokernel_hacker on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:07PM (#11640387)
This is not something you should think about writing code. Unless that code comprises a compiler :)

SSA is a program representation which is easy for compilers to analyze and optimize. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form for more.

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Re:Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimizer by munificent on Thursday May 05, 2016 @07:09PM (#11640400)
Purely a compiler hacker thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form

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