# dead code

> section in the source code of a program which is executed but whose result is never used in any other computation. The execution of dead code wastes computation time and memory

**Wikidata**: [Q1770035](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1770035)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_code)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/dead-code


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. [Source](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/xml/cwec_latest.xml.zip)
3. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)