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From: "David Allsopp" <dra-news@metastack.com>
To: <luc.maranget@inria.fr>
Cc: "'bluestorm'" <bluestorm.dylc@gmail.com>,
	<caml-list@yquem.inria.fr>,
	"'W Dan Meyer'" <wojciech.meyer@googlemail.com>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Converting variants with only constant constructors to integers
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2010 10:45:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <015f01cb06ef$500b4f60$f021ee20$@romulus.metastack.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100608093651.GA8296@yquem.inria.fr>

Luc Maranget wrote:
> Of course, if you have the following:
> >
> > type t = A | B | C
> > let int_of_t = function
> >   A -> 0
> > | B -> 1
> > | C -> 2
> >
> > Then in fact I believe that the compiler already converts that to a
> > hashtable lookup instead of a sequence of jumps..
> 
> The compiler does not convert the above code to 'hashtable lookup'.

Is there a point where the compiler does do a table lookup for matches
rather than jumps or have I clearly just dreamt that? :o)


David


  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-08  9:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-07 18:07 Török Edwin
2010-06-07 18:25 ` [Caml-list] " W Dan Meyer
2010-06-07 18:45   ` bluestorm
     [not found] ` <87sk4y7lc7.fsf@gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <4C0D3B0F.4060502@gmail.com>
2010-06-07 18:32     ` Török Edwin
2010-06-07 18:50       ` W Dan Meyer
2010-06-07 18:48 ` David Allsopp
2010-06-07 19:46   ` Török Edwin
2010-06-07 19:56     ` bluestorm
2010-06-07 22:51       ` W Dan Meyer
2010-06-08  7:42         ` David Allsopp
2010-06-08  7:59           ` bluestorm
2010-06-08  9:14             ` David Allsopp
2010-06-08  9:36               ` Luc Maranget
2010-06-08  9:45                 ` David Allsopp [this message]
2010-06-08  9:51                   ` Luc Maranget
2010-06-08 10:21                     ` David Allsopp
2010-06-08 10:21                   ` Dario Teixeira
2010-06-08 11:28       ` Kaustuv Chaudhuri
2010-06-08 11:40         ` bluestorm
2010-06-08 14:37           ` Jacques Garrigue
2010-06-08 18:22             ` Kaustuv Chaudhuri
2010-06-09  1:34               ` Jacques Garrigue
2010-08-23 14:36               ` Damien Doligez

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