superoptimization
nounEtymology
Coined by American computer scientist and programmer Alexia Massalin in 1987, from super- + optimization.
Definitions
A form of peephole optimization that typically uses an exhaustive brute-force search…
A form of peephole optimization that typically uses an exhaustive brute-force search across all possible sequences of machine instructions.
- As such, we implemented a state-of-the-art stochastic superoptimization approach, adapted it to the sort setting and used it as the learning algorithm in AlphaDev.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for superoptimization. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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