[sanxiyn]

In compiler context, "devirtualization" I encountered usually meant compiling a virtual call to a direct call. See for example "Devirtualization in LLVM and Clang" on LLVM blog: https://blog.llvm.org/2017/03/devirtualization-in-llvm-and-c....

"Devirtualization" in this post is something different, being an inverse of virtualization which is an obfuscation technique to hinder reverse engineering.

[marssaxman]

The phrasing of the headline really does suggest strongly that this is going to be an article about compiler optimization!