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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A form of peephole optimization that typically uses an exhaustive brute-force search across all possible sequences of machine instructions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences, software-compilation
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Coined by American computer scientist and programmer Alexia Massalin in 1987, from super- + optimization.
