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title: "Loop Hoisting"
description: "Detect opportunities to hoist function calls that are invariant outside of loop bodies for efficiency."
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Detect opportunities to hoist function calls that are invariant outside of loop bodies for efficiency.

Activate with `--loop-hoisting`.

Supported languages:
- C/C++/ObjC: Yes
- Java: Yes

This checker detects opportunities to hoist function calls that are invariant to outside of loop bodies. The hoisting analysis relies on [purity](/docs/1.0.0/checker-purity) analysis to determine whather a function is pure or not.

It has an additional mode that reports [loop-invariant functions that are expensive](/docs/1.0.0/all-issue-types#expensive_loop_invariant_call) (i.e. at least linear). This is enabled by the flag `--hoisting-report-only-expensive`.


## List of Issue Types

The following issue types are reported by this checker:
- [EXPENSIVE_LOOP_INVARIANT_CALL](/docs/1.0.0/all-issue-types#expensive_loop_invariant_call)
- [INVARIANT_CALL](/docs/1.0.0/all-issue-types#invariant_call)