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From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] break and continue for OCaml
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:41:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080410144128.GD4065@annexia.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <003e01c89b15$001f9f30$017ca8c0@countertenor>

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:12:49PM +0200, David Allsopp wrote:
> Is there therefore any reasonable performance gain over implementing
> break/continue as a camlp4 extension rather than as a compiler patch?

The posted patch turns the break/continue into jump instructions
(well, jump bytecodes), which should be moderately faster than pushing
an exception stack frame / unwinding the stack.

Rich.

-- 
Richard Jones
Red Hat


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-10 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-10  1:59 Sanghyeon Seo
2008-04-10  7:09 ` [Caml-list] " Luc Maranget
2008-04-10  7:11 ` Jean-Christophe Filliâtre
2008-04-10 14:12   ` David Allsopp
2008-04-10 14:41     ` Richard Jones [this message]
2008-04-10 13:39 ` Richard Jones
2008-04-10 14:05   ` Martin Jambon
2008-04-10 14:19     ` Richard Jones
2008-04-10 14:24     ` Michael Wohlwend
2008-04-10 14:35       ` Martin Jambon
2008-04-10 14:38         ` Michael Wohlwend
2008-04-10 22:23     ` Florian Weimer
2008-04-10 20:35 ` Eric Cooper
2008-04-11  0:14   ` Micha
2008-04-11  3:44 Andrew I. Schein

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