SSA: Static Single Assignment Form       

Programming Languages Accomplishment | 1991

IBM researchers: Ron Cytron, Jeanne Ferrante, Barry K. Rosen, Mark N. Wegman and F. Kenneth Zadeck

Where the work was done: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

What we accomplished: SSA is an intermediate representation of a program used by compilers. SSA enables many elegant optimization techniques to improve code quality and the speed at which a program executes.

Related links: Wikipedia Entry on SSA

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