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From: Radu Grigore <radugrigore@gmail.com>
To: skaller@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
	caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: paralell assignment problem
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:48:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7f8e92aa05020823485b62fcde@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f8e92aa05020810335ab052e0@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 20:33:52 +0200, Radu Grigore <radugrigore@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 09:12:32 -0800 (PST), skaller
> <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
> > However it isn't clear (to me) that just picking an arbitrary
> > assignment to split into two using a temporary
> > actually minimises the number of temporaries.
> 
> I'm mildly convinced that it works.

I was obviously too tired yesterday: there are lots of mistakes in my argument.

Actually here is an example on which your algorithm uses more
assignments than necessary:

a = b+c
b = c
c = a+b

The solution is
t = c
c = a+b
a = b+t
b = t

-- 
regards,
 radu
http://rgrig.idilis.ro/


  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-09  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-08  3:07 skaller
2005-02-08 14:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-08 16:02   ` [Caml-list] " skaller
2005-02-08 18:20     ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-08 17:08   ` skaller
2005-02-08 18:33     ` Radu Grigore
2005-02-09  7:48       ` Radu Grigore [this message]
2005-02-09 10:11         ` skaller
2005-02-09  9:43       ` Radu Grigore
2005-02-09 11:19         ` Radu Grigore
2005-02-09 11:34         ` Pascal Zimmer
2005-02-09 13:53           ` skaller
2005-02-08 16:03 ` [Caml-list] " Florian Hars
2005-02-08 17:38   ` skaller
2005-02-08 16:29 ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
2005-02-08 17:55   ` skaller
2005-02-08 18:32     ` Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk

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