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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 16:30:24 +0100
From: Markus Mottl <markus@oefai.at>
To: OCAML <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: [Caml-list] inlining of functions
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Hello,

I would like to know why OCaml does not produce the same machine code for:

  let f x =
    let g n = x + n in
    g 1, g 2

and:

  let f x =
    x + 1, x + 2

OCaml obviously performs some inlining, but otherwise produces more
redundant code in the first example. The reason why I ask is that it
often happens that I want to factor out computations that are shared
between different case-arms like in:

  let f x =
    let g y = ... h x y ... in
    match foo with
    | A -> g n
    | B -> g m

It may degrade performance in tight loops quite visibly if there is
extra-code to execute. One would have to use copy&paste to prevent this,
which is not really that elegant.

Regards,
Markus Mottl

P.S.:  Congratulations to the whole OCaml-team for the recent release
       of OCaml-3.04! You should add some bugs from time to time so
       that people do not get bored marvelling about its unvaryingly
       superb quality! ;)

-- 
Markus Mottl                                             markus@oefai.at
Austrian Research Institute
for Artificial Intelligence                  http://www.oefai.at/~markus
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