From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id DAA07270; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 03:50:27 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA07290 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 03:50:25 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from str12.sobor.org (adsl-63-198-183-99.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.198.183.99]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f721oNn13251 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 03:50:24 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from quasar.ipa.nw.ru (anza.sobor.org [192.168.123.51]) by str12.sobor.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52202AE153; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 18:43:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B68B15A.5ACBBC3C@quasar.ipa.nw.ru> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 18:48:10 -0700 From: "Alexander V. Voinov" Organization: Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Markus Mottl Cc: OCAML Subject: Re: [Caml-list] "super-compaction" of values References: <20010801122051.A12317@kastanie.ai.univie.ac.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi Markus Markus Mottl wrote: > would return "la" unchanged but "lb" would now share the common structure > with list_a (= la) (also when inserted in any other order). It may not be applicable here, but I recall that in Prolog there was a long argument between structure sharing and structure copying, and the latter won with new cheaper memories. Alexander ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr