Efficient Accommodation of May-Alias Information in SSA Form

Ron Cytron, Washington University in St Louis
Reid Gershbein, Oberlin College

Abstract

We present an algorithm for incrementally including may-alias information into Static Single Assignment form by computing a sequence of increasingly precise (and correspondingly larger) partial SSA forms. Our experiments show significant speedup of our method over exhaustive use of may-alias information, as optimisattion problems converge well before most may-aliases are needed.