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[Caml-list] O'Caml vs C++: a little benchmark

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Date:	2002-08-28 (14:34)
From:	Alain Frisch <frisch@c...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] O'Caml vs C++: a little benchmark

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, John Max Skaller wrote:

> [There's nothing to gain from
> a simple inlining, unless the loop is only executed
> once or twice - you'd only save a single function call]

Why ?  You can unroll the call to the function in its own body, up to a
fixed depth n and divide the number of function calls by n (and allow
subsequent optimizations, such as boxing/unboxing removal).

-- Alain

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