Elision in a sentence as a noun

Dead store elision is not a C specific optimization.

Has anyone seen performance measurements for hardware lock elision?

He sneaks a bit of sophist elision in here:In the end, facts not unfounded claims will determine the outcome of the suit filed against us.

There's a tricky elision there, though, in that it identifies "state ownership" with "collective ownership.

I think ceyusa was referring to the elision of bytecode as an intermediate step.

And I believe in general that volatile only prevents elision of reads and stores, but not optimization in general.

You're correct about the reference counter, the trick is that the compiler can reduce the manipulations on the counter drastically with copy elision.

Elision definitions

noun

omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)

noun

a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"

See also: exception exclusion