From: "Milan Stanojević" <milanst@gmail.com>
To: Alain Frisch <alain.frisch@lexifi.com>
Cc: Jeremie Dimino <jdimino@janestreet.com>, Caml List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] open extensible types representation
Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 16:56:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKR7PS9T+rUPv3MG-KKn-um7zdC3nDVanUzD+fC_Yi0zyc26SA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5373B924.9020206@lexifi.com>
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Alain Frisch <alain.frisch@lexifi.com> wrote:
> On 05/14/2014 08:41 PM, Alain Frisch wrote:
>>
>> One could think about improving that, for instance by matching first on
>> the constructor name (relying on the new much-improved compilation for
>> pattern matching on strings). But this doesn't work in presence of
>> constructor rebinding (which can change the name).
>
>
> Well, of course, one could always use this technique as a fast path and use
> linear search as fall back. It's not clear that the gain justifies the
> extra effort.
And linear search is likely faster for a small number of variants.
The rebinding of constructors is interesting. What are uses case apart
from reducing verbosity in some cases?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-14 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-13 15:53 Milan Stanojević
2014-05-13 16:07 ` Jeremie Dimino
2014-05-13 16:08 ` Jeremie Dimino
2014-05-13 16:39 ` Milan Stanojević
2014-05-13 16:57 ` Jeremie Dimino
2014-05-14 18:11 ` Milan Stanojević
2014-05-14 18:41 ` Alain Frisch
[not found] ` <5373B924.9020206@lexifi.com>
2014-05-14 20:56 ` Milan Stanojević [this message]
2014-05-14 23:33 ` Leo White
2014-05-13 16:37 ` Frédéric Bour
2014-05-13 17:51 ` Frédéric Bour
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