From: Damien Doligez <damien.doligez@inria.fr>
To: "'caml users'" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Single-case union types as strong typedefs
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:07:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <67E54EEE-2758-11D9-BCF8-00039310CAE8@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000601c4ba9e$6f9b8a00$1b447182@cas.mcmaster.ca>
On Oct 25, 2004, at 16:25, Jacques Carette wrote:
> Isn't that correct though? The value x is completely known
> statically, and
> all computation on x can be done statically, so it is not necessary to
> have
> any traces of x left at run-time.
Then how do you pass it to a polymorphic function?
> Yes, I am assuming that a fair bit of partial evaluation is a good
> thing for
> the compiler to do.
Unfortunately, the compiler doesn't have all the information about the
program. A lot of things are not known until link-time.
-- Damien
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-26 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-23 1:49 Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-23 3:31 ` Jacques Garrigue
2004-10-23 3:39 ` David Brown
2004-10-23 5:00 ` skaller
2004-10-23 21:49 ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-23 21:24 ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-23 21:33 ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-24 3:00 ` John Prevost
2004-10-24 5:18 ` skaller
2004-10-24 22:52 ` Nathaniel Gray
2004-10-25 13:21 ` Damien Doligez
2004-10-25 14:25 ` Jacques Carette
2004-10-26 14:07 ` Damien Doligez [this message]
2004-10-26 15:05 ` Jacques Carette
2004-10-26 17:34 ` skaller
2004-10-26 20:02 ` [Caml-list] Combined compilation and linking Jon Harrop
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