peephole optimisation

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peephole optimisation



A kind of code optimisation that considers only a few adjacent instructions at a time and looks for certain combinations which can be replaced with more efficient sequences. E.g.

ADD R0, #1 ADD R0, #1

(add one to register R0) could be replaced by

ADD R0, #2

(1995-03-28)