Program Dependence Graph

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A Program Dependence Graph (PDG) in computer science is a representation, using graph notation that makes data dependencies and control dependencies explicit.[1] These dependencies are used during dependence analysis in optimizing compilers to make transformations so that multiple cores are used, and parallelism is improved.

see: dependency graph

References

  1. Jeanne Ferrante; Ottenstein, Karl J.; Warren, Joe D. (July 1987). "The Program Dependence Graph and its Use in Optimization". ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (ACM) 9 (3): 319–349. doi:10.1145/24039.24041. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~pingali/CS395T/2009fa/papers/ferrante87.pdf.