On Nov 9, 2007 4:20 PM, Ralph Douglass <ralph@grayskies.net> wrote:
> Is there any cost to defining a function with "let rec" instead of just
> "let"?  A slightly longer compile time or something?  I'm just curious.

Typechecking can indeed be longer, also reccursive functions are never
inlined (and, AFAIK, the compiler considers all function defined via
let rec as reccursive)

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