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This lecture covers dataflow analysis for optimization purposes, focusing on equations solving, live variables, reaching definitions, and very busy expressions. It explains how to speed up dataflow analyses using work-list algorithms, equation ordering, basic blocks, and bit-vectors. The instructor emphasizes the importance of intermediate representations (IRs) in code optimization and discusses rewriting optimizations in machine-independent contexts.