+++ title = "η function" author = "Yann Herklotz" tags = [] categories = [] backlinks = ["2e1b3"] forwardlinks = ["2e1b5"] zettelid = "2e1b4" +++ The η function determines the value of a variable at the end of a loop. This also doesn't seem like it takes a condition variable. In thinned GSA \[1\], the η function does not have a predicate of when the assignment will be performed, however, in the original formulation, the η function did have the predicate.
\[1\] P. Havlak, “Construction of thinned gated single-assignment form,” in *Languages and compilers for parallel computing*, U. Banerjee, D. Gelernter, A. Nicolau, and D. Padua, Eds., Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1994, pp. 477–499.