English Explanatory Dictionary

peephole optimization

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An optimization that works by eliminating redundant instructions from a small area of source code.

Word forms

peephole optimization peephole optimizations

Etymology

Coined by computer scientist William Marshall McKeeman in 1965, from peephole + optimization.

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