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Wouldn't Common Subexpression Elimination be considered prior art?

Wouldn't Common Subexpression Elimination be considered prior art?

Posted Dec 3, 2008 19:03 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: Wouldn't Common Subexpression Elimination be considered prior art? by shapr
Parent article: KSM runs into patent trouble

No, that's a compiler optimization of code expressions. This is a runtime optimization of memory access.


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