On the Complexity of Register Coalescing

@article{Bouchez2007OnTC,
  title={On the Complexity of Register Coalescing},
  author={Florent Bouchez and Alain Darte and Fabrice Rastello},
  journal={International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO'07)},
  year={2007},
  pages={102-114}
}
Memory transfers are becoming more important to optimize, for both performance and power consumption. With this goal in mind, new register allocation schemes are developed, which revisit not only the spilling problem but also the coalescing problem. Indeed, a more aggressive strategy to avoid load/store instructions may increase the constraints to suppress (coalesce) move instructions. This paper is devoted to the complexity of the coalescing phase, in particular in the light of recent… 
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