Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 15:04:24 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: John Beppu <beppu AT rigel DOT oac DOT uci DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Strength reducing? [was Re: DJGPP V2.01 loop unrolling bug]
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On 26 Oct 1996, John Beppu wrote:

>   What is __strength reduction__?  I've never heard of
>   this optimzation technique before.

That's when the optimizer replaces e.g. 2*a by a+a.