On 04/29/2011 12:57 AM, Ethan Burns wrote:
> Thanks for the links.  Actually, I think that understand OCaml's
> polymorphic comparison and how to get rid of it (for the most part). I
> guess that I just found it surprising that the compiler doesn't seem
> to optimize it away in this case (a variant type used as an
> enumeration with only simple constructors).  I suppose that one
> solution would be to just use let-bindings to associate integers with
> names "by hand" instead of using the variant type.  I don't really
> like that approach too much, however.

Indeed, the compiler does not do it... yet. But it's already somewhere
on someone's TODO list ;-)

Fabrice