In compiler theory, loop dependence analysis is the task of determining whether statements within a loop body form a dependence, with respect to array access and modification, induction, reduction and private variables, simplification of loop-independent code and management of conditional branches inside the loop body.
Loop dependence analysis is mostly done to find ways to do automatic parallelization, by means of vectorization, shared memory or others.
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