Introduction This blog post continues from where we left off in Part III and will cover each DFG graph optimisation. The graph generated at the end of the bytecode parsing phase is passed through the DFG pipeline which optimises the graph before lowering it to machine code. DFG Optimisation phases add, remove and update nodes in the various blocks that make up the graph. The optimisation phases will also re-order nodes (via Hoisting or Sinking) within the same basic block.