A note on sub-expression ordering in the execution of arithmetic expressions

  • Authors:
  • Peter J. Denning;G. Scott Graham

  • Affiliations:
  • Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN;Purdue Univ., Lafayette, IN

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1973

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Abstract

A counterexample to the supposed optimality of an algorithm for generating schedules for trees of tasks with unequal execution times is presented. A comparison with the “critical path” heuristic is discussed.