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From: Damien Doligez <Damien.Doligez@inria.fr>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re:  [Caml-list] "super-compaction" of values
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 15:12:41 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200108011312.PAA0000004246@beaune.inria.fr> (raw)

>From: Markus Mottl <markus@mail4.ai.univie.ac.at>

>would return "la" unchanged but "lb" would now share the common structure
>with list_a (= la) (also when inserted in any other order).

Look for "hash-consing" in the (LISP) literature.  But doing it for
arbitrary types looks complex.


>  * Support automatic GC? Or should the user make sure that possible
>    administrative memory overhead is prevented by telling "'a t" that
>    some value need not be remembered for sharing with further values
>    anymore.  The "automatic" version is probably less efficient and
>    much more complicated.

Module Weak is here to help you solve this problem.

-- Damien
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             reply	other threads:[~2001-08-01 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-01 13:12 Damien Doligez [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-02 13:46 Dave Berry
2001-08-02 13:28 ` Gregory Morrisett
2001-08-02 15:56   ` Markus Mottl
     [not found] <200108011606.JAA29019@dhpc0010.pdx.intel.com>
2001-08-02  9:42 ` Markus Mottl
2001-08-01 10:20 Markus Mottl
2001-08-01 13:41 ` Thorsten Ohl
2001-08-01 14:09   ` Markus Mottl
2001-08-01 14:29     ` Thorsten Ohl
2001-08-01 15:25       ` Markus Mottl
2001-08-02  1:48 ` Alexander V. Voinov

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