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| Date: | -- (:) |
| From: | Richard Jones <rich@a...> |
| Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] break and continue for OCaml |
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:12:49PM +0200, David Allsopp wrote: > Is there therefore any reasonable performance gain over implementing > break/continue as a camlp4 extension rather than as a compiler patch? The posted patch turns the break/continue into jump instructions (well, jump bytecodes), which should be moderately faster than pushing an exception stack frame / unwinding the stack. Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat