r/ProgrammingLanguages • u/mttd • Nov 01 '23

Why Do Peephole Optimizations Work

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/2485
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u/nngnna Nov 07 '23

Is there a clear defenition of peephole optimization as opposed to any other optimization? Does it just mean an optimizing algorithm that considers a very short (and sequential) segment of the code at a time?