Method for identifying partial redundancies in a new processor a

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The invention, in one embodiment, is a method for compiling at least a portion of a computer program. The method includes (a) inserting a phi-function for a global variable reaching a join point in the intermediate language representation subsequent to the join point without regard to the presence of ambiguity; (b) renaming a definition and any subsequent use of the definition in the intermediate language representation; and (c) identifying a partially redundant load by determining whether any of the operands of the inserted phi-function have not been renamed.

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