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The document discusses code optimization in compiler design, focusing on improving intermediate code for better performance, reduced memory usage, and efficiency. It covers various optimization techniques such as dead code elimination, loop optimization, and data flow analysis, emphasizing their roles in enhancing code execution. Additionally, it highlights the challenges of debugging optimized code and the use of symbolic debugging to address these issues.

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UnitV Code Optimization DarkTheme

The document discusses code optimization in compiler design, focusing on improving intermediate code for better performance, reduced memory usage, and efficiency. It covers various optimization techniques such as dead code elimination, loop optimization, and data flow analysis, emphasizing their roles in enhancing code execution. Additionally, it highlights the challenges of debugging optimized code and the use of symbolic debugging to address these issues.

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Compiler Design - Unit V: Code Optimization

1. Introduction to Code Optimization

- Code optimization improves intermediate code so that final machine code runs faster, uses less memory, or executes

more efficiently.

- Goals: Minimize execution time, code size, memory usage, power consumption.

- Types: Local, Global, and Loop optimization.

2. Sources of Optimization in Basic Blocks

- Basic block: a straight-line code with no branches.

- Optimizations include: Constant folding, Algebraic simplification, Common subexpression elimination, Copy

propagation, Dead code elimination, Strength reduction.

3. Loops in Flow Graphs

- Flow graph: Nodes are basic blocks, edges represent control flow.

- Loops have back edges and loop headers.

- Used for applying loop optimizations.

4. Dead Code Elimination

- Dead code: Code that does not affect output.

- Remove assignments or operations that are never used.

- Reduces code size and execution time.

5. Loop Optimization

- Optimizing loops provides significant performance improvements.

- Techniques: Loop invariant code motion, Induction variable elimination, Strength reduction, Loop unrolling.

6. Introduction to Global Data Flow Analysis

- DFA gathers information about how data moves across the program.

- Used for optimizations like dead code elimination and constant propagation.

- Global DFA looks across basic blocks.


Compiler Design - Unit V: Code Optimization

7. Code Improving Transformations

- Examples: Constant folding, Copy propagation, Common subexpression elimination, Dead code elimination, Strength

reduction.

- These improve code performance without changing behavior.

8. Data Flow Analysis of Structured Flow Graph

- Structured flow graphs use structured constructs (if, while, for).

- Easier for DFA due to predictable control flow.

9. Symbolic Debugging of Optimized Code

- Optimized code may differ from source code, making debugging hard.

- Symbolic debugging maps machine code back to source using symbols and metadata.

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