SOME COMMENTS ON MOREL AND RENVOIS GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION BY SUPPRESSIONOF PARTIAL REDUNDANCIES

There has been much continuing interest in the global optimization met hod of Morel and Renvoise as extended by Joshi-Dhamdere and Chow. Unfo rtunately, the original formulation of Morel and Renvoise and those of Joshi-Dhamdere and Chow do not agree as to;the form of the algorithm. The precise form of the algorithm's boolean equations is critical to the algorithm's performance and efficient implementation. Some of the problems with the algorithm noted by other authors can be solved by us ing a slightly different formulation of the algorithm.