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Question on performance/style issue

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From:	Alessandro Baretta <a.baretta@s...>
Subject:	Re: [Caml-list] Question on performance/style issue

Nathaniel Gray wrote:
> On 2/24/06, Alessandro Baretta <a.baretta@studio.baretta.com> wrote:
>
>> x ++ f ++ g ++ h
>>
>>What is the impact of the this programming style on execution performance?
> 
> 
> Looks bad:  ...
> 
> So no, it looks like the call to ++ isn't compiled away, at least in
> this case.  I also tried with -inline 99 and it didn't help, but I
> don't know if that's even a valid value for inline.

Ah, I thought so much. Yet, I also think I remember that ocaml(c/opt) does 
reduce some kinds of expressions before code generation. Or am I out in the blue?

Alex


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