From: Fabrice Le Fessant <fabrice@lefessant.net>
To: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
Cc: Edgar Friendly <thelema314@gmail.com>,
"caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] is there a more concise way to write this?
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:23:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHvkLrNRSRRQQE8LfTfXeqoZinO8+qiZWyxK9K-qUGj8Z1+UBw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E51C5B015DBD1348A1D85763337FB6D9C264D3AF@Remus.metastack.local>
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:12 PM, David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com> wrote:
> Maybe for this case with two variables, yes - but it can't do that indefinitely: as the number of variables increases, the code size increases exponentially.
The problem is not the compilation of pattern-matching (number of
tests will still be close to optimal), it is just that the number of
cases to discriminate increases exponentially with the number of
variables.
--Fabrice
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-20 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-20 6:38 Martin DeMello
2012-01-20 6:46 ` Valentin ROBERT
2012-01-20 6:58 ` Martin DeMello
2012-01-20 8:37 ` David Allsopp
2012-01-20 13:29 ` Edgar Friendly
2012-01-20 13:50 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2012-01-20 13:58 ` oliver
2012-01-20 14:05 ` Edgar Friendly
2012-01-20 14:12 ` David Allsopp
2012-01-20 14:23 ` Fabrice Le Fessant [this message]
2012-01-20 14:23 ` Edgar Friendly
2012-01-20 8:37 ` Sebastien Ferre
2012-01-20 9:11 ` Jerome Vouillon
2012-01-20 9:34 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2012-01-20 10:27 ` Arnaud Spiwack
2012-01-20 8:52 ` Lin
2012-01-20 9:08 ` Valentin ROBERT
2012-01-20 9:19 ` Lin
2012-01-20 10:21 ` Martin DeMello
2012-01-20 9:38 ` oliver
2012-01-20 13:59 ` Edgar Friendly
2012-01-20 14:42 ` oliver
2012-01-20 15:31 ` Fabrice Le Fessant
2012-01-20 21:04 ` oliver
2012-01-20 21:09 ` oliver
2012-01-20 20:40 ` oliver
2012-01-20 21:07 ` Martin DeMello
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