Dead code

The term dead code has multiple definitions.Some use the term to refer to code (i.e. instructions in memory) which can never be executed at run-time.In some areas of computer programming, dead code is a section in the source code of a program which is executed but whose result is never used in any other computation. The execution of dead code wastes computation time and memory.

Dead code

The term dead code has multiple definitions.Some use the term to refer to code (i.e. instructions in memory) which can never be executed at run-time.In some areas of computer programming, dead code is a section in the source code of a program which is executed but whose result is never used in any other computation. The execution of dead code wastes computation time and memory.