Date:	Wed, 11 Jun 2003 18:15:00 -0400
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> Forgive my ignorance, but what is this ``tree-ssa'' thingie that
> Mark Mitchell is so excited about?

SSA is "static single assignment" which is a way of canonicalizing the
instruction flow for optimizing and trees are parse trees produced by
gcc's front ends.  So, "tree-ssa" is a drastic change to the way gcc
organizes its internal data structures for optimization.

http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/

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