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''cost'' / ''degree'' - introduced in Chaitlin's algorithm

''cost'' / ''degree²'' - emphasizes the spill's effect on neighbours

''cost'' - emphasizes Runtime

minimising number of spill operations

Where ''cost'' is the estimated cost of spilling a value from registers into memory.