A.6 Loop-Carried Dependence

A dependence is said to be carried by a loop if the corresponding direction vector element for that loop has a directional component (<, <, /, or *). Loop-carried dependence is an important concept for discovering when the iterations of the loop can be executed concurrently. If there are no loop-carried dependencies, all iterations of that loop can be executed in parallel without synchronization.

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