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  69. <h2 class="chapter">9 Passes and Files of the Compiler</h2>
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  74. <p>This chapter is dedicated to giving an overview of the optimization and
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  80. <tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Parsing-pass.html#Parsing-pass" accesskey="1">Parsing pass</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">The language front end turns text into bits.
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  82. <tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Cilk-Plus-Transformation.html#Cilk-Plus-Transformation" accesskey="2">Cilk Plus Transformation</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Transform Cilk Plus Code to equivalent C/C++.
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  84. <tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Gimplification-pass.html#Gimplification-pass" accesskey="3">Gimplification pass</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">The bits are turned into something we can optimize.
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  86. <tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Pass-manager.html#Pass-manager" accesskey="4">Pass manager</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Sequencing the optimization passes.
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  88. <tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Tree-SSA-passes.html#Tree-SSA-passes" accesskey="5">Tree SSA passes</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Optimizations on a high-level representation.
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  90. <tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="RTL-passes.html#RTL-passes" accesskey="6">RTL passes</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Optimizations on a low-level representation.
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  92. <tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Optimization-info.html#Optimization-info" accesskey="7">Optimization info</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Dumping optimization information from passes.
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