Q. What is an intermediate representation in a compiler?

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Q. Why is it important to choose the proper intermediate representation in a compiler?

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Q. What determines the layout of the intermediate representation in a compiler?

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Q. What are some characteristics of intermediate representations that are close to a high-level language?

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Q. What are some characteristics of intermediate representations that are closer to a low-level assembly language code?

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Q. Is it common for compilers to have multiple intermediate representations?

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Q. What is the primary reason that reversers should understand compilers?

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Q. What are the two primary goals for optimizers?

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Q. Are the optimizations that take place in the optimizer processor-specific?

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Q. What must optimizers always preserve when making improvements to a program?

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Q. From which area might some of the optimizations that strongly affect a program’s readability come from?

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Q. What is the primary goal of optimizers?

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Q. What does it mean to unroll a loop?

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Q. What is the most common high-level loop construct?

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Q. Why do optimizers convert pretested loops to posttested loops?

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Q. Do code structure optimizations change the behavior of the original program?

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Q. What is redundancy elimination in the context of code optimization?

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Q. Why is leaving static expressions inside loops considered wasteful?

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Q. How can optimizers streamline pointer arithmetic?

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Q. What is the back end of a compiler responsible for?

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