Optimizations

The Compiler applies a variety of code-improving techniques under the term optimization. This section provides a short overview about the most important optimizations.

The topics covered here are as follows:

• Peephole Optimizer
  
  
• Strength Reduction
  
  
• Shift Optimizations
  
  
• Branch Optimizations
  
  
• Dead-Code Elimination
  
  
• Constant-Variable Optimization
  
  
• Tree Rewriting