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inDigiNeous on May 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing a new, advanced Visual C++ code optimi...

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.

cokernel_hacker on May 5, 2016 | [–]

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.

munificent on May 5, 2016 | [–]

Purely a compiler hacker thing.

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

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