Everything about Interprocedural optimization

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Interprocedural optimizationA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Optimal interprocedural program optimizationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: The impact of interprocedural analysis and optimization in the R n programming environmentCited 76 times
4. Go sideways: LLVMA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: GNU Compiler CollectionA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The impact of interprocedural analysis and optimization in the R n programming environment

  Keith D. Cooper, Ken Kennedy, Linda Torczon · 1986 · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems · 76 citations

• Interprocedural optimization

  Michael Burke, Linda Torczon · 1993 · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems · 42 citations

• Interprocedural optimization: Experimental results

  Stephen Richardson, Mahadevan Ganapathi · 1989 · Software: Practice and Experience · 21 citations

• Interprocedural control flow analysis of first-order programs with tail-call optimization

  Saumya K. Debray, Todd A. Proebsting · 1997 · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems · 12 citations

• Interprocedural optimization: eliminating unnecessary recompilation

  Keith D. Cooper, Ken Kennedy, Linda Torczon · 1986 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 11 citations

• Interprocedural Compiler Optimization for Partial Run-Time Reconfiguration

  Elena Moscu Panainte, Koen Bertels, Stamatis Vassiliadis · 2006 · Journal of VLSI signal processing systems for signal, image and video technology · 10 citations

• A framework for interprocedural optimization in the presence of dynamic class loading

  Vugranam C. Sreedhar, Michael Burke, Jong-Deok Choi · 2000 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 8 citations

• Developing an interprocedural optimizing compiler

  Jon Loeliger · 1994 · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 4 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Optimal interprocedural program optimizationJens Knoop · 1998
• Principles of compiler designAlfred V. Aho, Jeffrey D. Ullman · 1977

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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