peephole optimisation
<compiler> A kind of code optimisation that considers only a few adjacent
instructions at a time and looks for certain combinations which can be replaced
with more efficient sequences. E.g.
ADD R0, #1
ADD R0, #1
(add one to register R0) could be replaced by
ADD R0, #2
(1995-03-28)
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