Superoptimization

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Noun
  1. 1
    A form of peephole optimization that typically uses an exhaustive brute-force search across all possible sequences of machine instructions. uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

Coined by American computer scientist and programmer Alexia Massalin in 1987, from super- + optimization.

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brute forcemachine instructionpeephole optimization

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