diff --git a/tinygrad/codegen/uops.py b/tinygrad/codegen/uops.py
index 7817261c83..ae6ddd6d4b 100644
--- a/tinygrad/codegen/uops.py
+++ b/tinygrad/codegen/uops.py
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ class UOpGraph:
           self.replace_op(u, new)
           return True
 
-  def uoptimize(self):
+  def optimize_loops(self):
     # get PHI node loop scope, link anything using a DEFINE_ACC to the loop as a "parent"
     acc_scope: DefaultDict[UOp, List[UOp]] = defaultdict(list)
     for u in self.uops:
@@ -356,6 +356,9 @@ class UOpGraph:
     while self.uops_optimization(get_recursive_parents): pass
     self.simplify_phi_loops(get_recursive_parents)
 
+  def uoptimize(self):
+    self.optimize_loops()
+
     # (recursively) remove childless uops
     # TODO: remove DEFINE_GLOBAL from here
     self.remove_childless(set(x for x in self.uops if x.uop in {UOps.DEFINE_GLOBAL, UOps.STORE}))
diff --git a/tinygrad/renderer/assembly.py b/tinygrad/renderer/assembly.py
index c772a065d1..74144ee998 100644
--- a/tinygrad/renderer/assembly.py
+++ b/tinygrad/renderer/assembly.py
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ def uops_to_asm(lang:AssemblyLanguage, function_name:str, uops:UOpGraph) -> str:
      lambda root,z: UOp(root.uop, root.dtype, root.vin[:2] + (UOp(UOps.CAST, dtypes.uint8, (z,), None),), root.arg)),
     ({"__name__": "root", "uop": UOps.STORE, "vin": ({},{},{"__name__": "z","dtype": dtypes.bool})},
      lambda root,z: UOp(root.uop, root.dtype, root.vin[:2] + (UOp(UOps.CAST, dtypes.uint8, (z,), None),), root.arg)),
-
   ])
 
   # here we do a pretransform on UOps to fix some shortcomings of PTX
@@ -92,6 +91,7 @@ def uops_to_asm(lang:AssemblyLanguage, function_name:str, uops:UOpGraph) -> str:
 
   for pointer_op in list(filter(lambda uop: uop.uop in [UOps.LOAD, UOps.STORE], uops.uops)): ptr_ar(pointer_op, uops)
   uops.remove_childless(set(x for x in uops if x.uop in {UOps.DEFINE_GLOBAL, UOps.PHI, UOps.ENDIF, UOps.ENDLOOP, UOps.STORE}))
+  uops.optimize_loops()
 
   def kk(*s: str): kernel.append("\n".join(s))