Jacques Garrigue wrote:

> That message was about polymorphic variants, which are encoded as
> integers, and for which pattern-matching is a decision tree.
> 
> However, if you look in bytecomp/matching.ml, you will see that string
> patterns are just checked sequentially (the ordering is not used).
> Moreover, the match compiler seems to be clever enough to compile
> properly the above style:...

Very strange. I thought the Ocaml compiler sould 
precalculate the branch of pattern matching to be taken, and 
then jump, thereby avoiding sequential checking. I'm sorry 
for my mistake.

Alex Baretta

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