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dead code

section in the source code of a program which is executed but whose result is never used in any other computation. The execution of dead code wastes computation time and memory
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dead code

Summary

dead code ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (31 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • dead code's subclass of is recorded as redundant code[2].
  • dead code's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04q00b_[3].
  • dead code's facet of is recorded as compiler construction[4].
  • dead code's used by is recorded as dead code elimination[5].
  • dead code's CWE ID is recorded as 561[6].
  • dead code's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 47434764[7].
  • dead code's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C47434764[8].

Why It Matters

dead code ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (31 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . cwe.mitre.org. cwe.mitre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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