Quote: addressing optimizations: strength reduction, induction variables, common subexpressions, constant folding

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In fact it is still the case today … Pascal) is in generating good addressing code [e.g., moving index calculation out of loop, using auto-increment for do loops, finding common subexpressions, "replacing loop tests by tests on registers required for addressing within the loop", folding constants.   Google-1   Google-2

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