From: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
To: Vaibhav Bhandari <vaibhav@cse.ucsc.edu>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Function Indirection overhead?
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:34:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030124113411.C9454@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301232319440.17524-100000@sundance.cse.ucsc.edu>; from vaibhav@cse.ucsc.edu on Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 11:21:05PM -0800
> I am not sure, if in ocaml we write
>
> let f = Hop.a;
>
> where f and Hop.a are methods, does the compiler "short-circuit" the call,
> or not?
Yes, it does. Applications of function f will go straight to the code
for Hop.a. Contrast this with
let f x = Hop.a x
where an additional call (from f to Hop.a) would occur.
- Xavier Leroy
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