Patent 7353503 was granted and assigned to Sun Microsystems on April, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Disclosed is a method for eliminating dead code from a computer program using an operands graph generated from a flow graph of a computer program. In one embodiment of the present invention, the operands graph is traversed for any unused operands. Upon detection of any,unused operands, the instructions defining the unused operands are removed from execution.