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Is this a seminal work? Wondering how much of LLVM is built on this work. (LLVM has a optimizer that works on machine-independent IR, right?)

• CalChris 5y ago
  LLVM was done much later in 2003 at the University of Illinois. More importantly LLVM has its own IR, LLVM IR, which is SSA-based. SSA was proposed in 1988 and Chow's work is from 1983.
  • gumby 5y ago
    We started putting SSA into gcc in the early 90s.