Automatic generation of peephole optimizations

  • Authors:
  • Jack W. Davidson;Christopher W. Fraser

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA;University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

  • Venue:
  • SIGPLAN '84 Proceedings of the 1984 SIGPLAN symposium on Compiler construction
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

This paper describes a system that automatically generates peephole optimizations. A general peephole optimizer driven by a machine description produces optimizations at compile-compile time for a fast, pattern-directed, compile-time optimizer. They form part of a compiler that simplifies retargeting by substituting peephole optimization for case analysis.