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		MichaelGG on April 18, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The death of optimizing compilers [pdf] SSA turns C into a pure functional language? What about globals, volatile, etc.?

astrange on April 18, 2015 [–]

It's inside a memory monad.

andrewflnr on April 18, 2015 | [–]

What on earth are you talking about? SSA has nothing to do with monads. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_single_assignment_form

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