Re: Between-Opcode Callbacks

[Uri Guttman]

>>>>> "JH" == Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

<snip of basic block lesson>

  JH> Basic-blocks are a useful unit both for code generation and for code
  JH> profiling.

and in optimization. you can compare basic blocks and do loop invariant
detection and related loop optimizations.

a basic block is just a sequence of op codes with no branching. it can be
looked at and manipulated as a single larger or higher level operation
(from the compiler point of view).

uri

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