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From: David House <dhouse@janestreet.com>
To: Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com>
Cc: "Török Edwin" <edwin+ml-ocaml@etorok.net>,
	"caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] The verdict on "%identity"
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:28:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK=fH+hLkJXqe_A-ux5T4Yu4c2DR3QdY9NK7xLxDJmz7K+6Y+w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1353349126.4420.YahooMailNeo@web111512.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

If you wanted to investigate this yourself, you could compile with -S
and look at the generated assembly. For such short functions, this is
generally not very hard.

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Dario Teixeira <darioteixeira@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Wouldn't 'type t = private string' help the compiler optimize this?
>
>
> Possibly, though the semantics would change: what before was
> an abstract type is now translucent (ie, not quite transparent).
>
> Regards,
> Dario
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-19 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-19 17:49 Dario Teixeira
2012-11-19 18:02 ` Török Edwin
2012-11-19 18:18   ` Dario Teixeira
2012-11-19 18:28     ` David House [this message]
2012-11-20  9:53       ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-11-20 10:25       ` Pierre Chambart
2012-11-20 16:19         ` Gabriel Scherer
2012-11-20 19:03           ` Vincent HUGOT
2012-11-20 20:43           ` Dario Teixeira

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