Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

as-if rule

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.92 in modern English

Syllables: as-if rule
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A rule by which compilers are allowed to apply any optimizing transformation to a program provided that it makes no change to the observable behavior of the program.

Questions

What does as-if rule mean?: A rule by which compilers are allowed to apply any optimizing transformation to a program provided that it makes no change to the observable behavior of the program.

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