Or academics in 1986: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/13310.13338 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/13310.13338 The idea of optimizations running at differ

Or academics in 1986: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/13310.13338 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/13310.13338 The idea of optimizations running at different stages in the build, with different visibility of the whole program, was discussed in 1979, but the world was so different back then that the discussion seems foreign. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/872732.806974 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/872732.806974