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<h1>Contify</h1>
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<p><a href="#">Contify</a> is an optimization pass for the <a href="SSA">SSA</a>
<a href="IntermediateLanguage">IntermediateLanguage</a>, invoked from <a href="SSASimplify">SSASimplify</a>.</p>
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<p>Contification is a compiler optimization that turns a function that
always returns to the same place into a continuation.  This exposes
control-flow information that is required by many optimizations,
including traditional loop optimizations.</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/MLton/mlton/blob/master/mlton/ssa/contify.fun"><code>contify.fun</code></a></p>
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<p>See <a href="References#FluetWeeks01">Contification Using Dominators</a>.  The
intermediate language described in that paper has since evolved to the
<a href="SSA">SSA</a> <a href="IntermediateLanguage">IntermediateLanguage</a>; hence, the complication described in
Section 6.1 is no longer relevant.</p>
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Last updated Thu Oct 21 15:53:06 2021 -0400 by Matthew Fluet.
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