Embodiments of the invention generally provide a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for code transformation. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method of transforming source code. The method determines if a source code statement includes a first operation that receives input from a result of a second operation, where the second operation acts on a plurality of arguments. If the source code includes the first operation, then the method transforms the source code into a plurality of statements that include the first operation acting on one of the arguments.