Re: What is a restructuring compiler?

> Once a compiler has parsed and analysed its code, it can do many
> things to it. It can turn as much of it into vector operations as
> possible; it can separate out independent threads; it can rearrange
> the code to obfuscate its history; it can optimise it for a register
> machine; and so on. All of those operations are restructuring, and
> differ solely in their purpose.


I assume this restructuring is for optimization; so, a restructuring
compiler is one kind of an optimizing compiler? If that's the case,
why would there exist a restructuring compiler by itself? I mean, an
optimizing compiler would not limit its optimization techniques to
restructuring alone; that is, there would not be a compiler that does
restructuring alone.
[Actually, there are. They rewrite programs to make them more amenable
to other kinds of optimization. -John]

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