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Efficency of varient types

Michael D. Adams
- Stefan Monnier
  - Michael D. Adams
- Nicolas Cannasse
- Jon Harrop
- Lukasz Stafiniak
  - Lukasz Stafiniak
  - Christophe Raffalli
- David Baelde
  - Jacques Garrigue
    - Jon Harrop
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  - Ville-Pertti Keinonen

Date:	2005-11-28 (10:06)
From:	Jon Harrop <jon@f...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Efficency of varient types

On Monday 28 November 2005 07:49, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> More importantly, polymorphic variants are internally encoded as
> integers, so there is no representation cost for constant tags.

Is pattern matching over constant ordinary variants not more efficient than 
pattern matching over constant polymorphic variants when compiled to native 
code?

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