[lpu4o74p]

Page 19 is misleading, sailing close to mendacity.

> Frances Allen Got All The Good Ones.

> 1971: "A Catalogue of Optimizing Transformations". The ~8 passes to write if you're going to bother.

> Inline, Unroll (& Vectorize), CSE, DCE, Code Motion, Constant Fold, Peephole.

> That's it. You're welcome. Many compilers just do those, get ~80% best-case perf.

You could be excused if you came away from this believing that Frances Allen invented all of these optimizations.

She didn't.

With that cleared up, you might think that, at least, she is the sole author of the overview paper cited.

She isn't.

It seems an overwhelming need to come up with some heroic narrative around "women in coding" got the better of this author. I don't think this kind of "proof" is helpful.

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