-\item[reduction detection]{
- is an analysis that identifies statements that perform a reduction over a
- variable.}
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-\item[parallelism detection]{
- is a common name for analysis that detect if a loop can be run in parallel.}
-
-\item[parallelism extraction]{
- is a common name for code transformations that modifies loop nest to make it legal to
- run them in parallel.}
-
-\item[directive generation]{
- is a common name for code transformations that annotate the code with directives.}
-
-\item[constant propagation]{
- is a pass that replaces a variable by its value when this value is
- known at compile time.}
+\item[inlining]{is a function transformation.
+Inlining a function \texttt{foo} in its caller \texttt{bar} consists in the substitution of the calls to \texttt{foo} in \texttt{bar} by the function body after replacement of the formal parameters by their effective parameters.}