Some Optimized Codes

Different types of optimization help us to improve our code’s stability.

Tail splitting eliminates jumps by bringing common return statements into the blocks, so that

if(x) {
   b = 1;
} else {
   b = 2;
}
return b;

becomes

if(x) {
   b = 1;
   return b;
} else {
   b = 2;
   return b;
}

which is a speed optimization.

Tail merging, on the other hand, pulls duplicate instructions out of the blocks, which is a size optimization. Tail merging turns the following:

if(x) {
   bar()
   b = 1;
} else {
   foo()
   b = 1;
}

into this:

if(x) {
   bar()
} else {
   foo()
}
b = 1;