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.Debray, S. K., Evans, W., Muth, R., and De Sutter, B. 2000. Compiler techniques for code compaction. ACM Trans. Program. Lang. Syst. 22, 2 (Mar. 2000), 378–415.Appel, A. W. 1998 Modern Compiler Implementation in Java. Cambridge University Press. The execution of dead code wastes computation time and memory.
