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[Caml-list] Stack Overflow... (recursion in try-statement)

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Date:	-- (:)
From:	John Max Skaller <skaller@o...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Is CVS version of ocaml faster?

Jacques Garrigue wrote:

>
>There's a small optimization in the type checker, which can improve
>performance if you have lots of mutually recursive types. It's rather
>application specific, so I wouldn't say it would improve performance
>for everybody, but you can have good surprises. Some exponential cases
>become linear.
>
I hereby award Jacques the "understatement of the year" award!
exponential to linear is a *small* optimisation??

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