English
supercompilation
From super- + compilation.
Formed from super- + compilation
Proto-Italic *peilā ‘pillar’
Proto-Italic *peilāō ‘to make like a pillar’
Latin pīlō ‘ram down’
Latin compīlō ‘snatch together, carry off’
Latin compilatio ‘a raking together, a plundering, a collection…’
English compilation
Today it means
noun A technique, involving multiple metacompilations, that seeks to optimize a program.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “supercompilation”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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