From: "Till Varoquaux" <till.varoquaux@gmail.com>
To: "Ralph Douglass" <ralph@grayskies.net>
Cc: "Caml List" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] cost to let rec?
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 16:28:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d3ec8300711091328p7e7f0760tbd6c29f7fb975b21@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71767b800711091320h5d14afb8qc614fb4f1951ed06@mail.gmail.com>
On Nov 9, 2007 4:20 PM, Ralph Douglass <ralph@grayskies.net> wrote:
> Is there any cost to defining a function with "let rec" instead of just
> "let"? A slightly longer compile time or something? I'm just curious.
Typechecking can indeed be longer, also reccursive functions are never
inlined (and, AFAIK, the compiler considers all function defined via
let rec as reccursive)
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-09 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-09 21:20 Ralph Douglass
2007-11-09 21:28 ` Till Varoquaux [this message]
2007-11-10 17:16 ` [Caml-list] " Andrej Bauer
2007-11-11 0:44 ` Arnaud Spiwack
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