Jun 9, 2021
Compilers generating assembly be like:
Probably, idk, this was just the most drawable part of something I just came up with on my own when figuring out how to eliminate sequences which are tails of other sequences.
And I am sure compilers do this (or probably something strictly better) when figuring out how to "overlap" functions where one function's code is exactly the tail of another function's code. By "overlap" I mean generate and order the machine instructions so that one function just "falls off the end" into the other function's body.
I'd call this something like "tail merging" but I bet it has a more established and arguably worse name already.