Expressions simplification statistic

["Dino Puller" <dino dot puller at gmail dot com>]

2006/10/17, Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com>:
> On Oct 17, 2006, at 8:05 AM, Dino Puller wrote:
> > i'm looking for a statistic of how many expressions simplification
> > may be possible on source code
>
> One way would be:
>
>   http://www.cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/text.html
But it´s a benchmark about compression.

> though, this assumes a particular definition of simplification.  For
> other definitions, gcc doesn't just tell you an answer, you'd have to
> define what you think a simplification is and then instrument gcc to
> provide that answer.  This would be lots of hard work at best.
For expressions simplification i mean simply mathematical
simplificacions like: x/x=1 0*x=1 1*x=x and so on.
>

bye,
  Dino