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                        Concept associated with the loopsContains one point for each iteration of the loopIf a statement in one iteration dependes on a statement in another iteration then dependence is represented by an edge from source to target (called iteration space dependence graph) 
                        
                          | for i = 2 to 9 do x[i] = . . .
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                        Space requirement too largeCompiler can not always determine number of iterations Iteration Vector 
                        
                          | Each iteration is assigned a vector iv = (I1, I2, . . ., In)
 Where Ik is the value of loop index variable of kth nested loop at that iteration.
 
 
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                          | for i = 3 to 7 do for j = 6 to 2 step -2 do
 a[i,j] = a[i,,j+2] + 1
 endfor
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