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- From: rob@pact.nl (Rob Kurver)
- Subject: Re: IS Occam3 recursive?
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:13:18 GMT
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- In <2306@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> wgd@ukc.ac.uk (W.G.Day) writes:
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- >>Not necessarily. A smart enough compiler system may well be able to
- >>support recursion at a small price if used, but without any overhead if
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- >Why should there have to be a price.
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- Few things in life are free.
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- >>not used. This can be implemented by a smart linker, which uses a call
- > slow
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- I don't think building a call-graph during linking gives a noticeable
- performance difference. The time required is certainly negligible
- compared to the time needed for file I/O. If you have data that shows
- otherwise, please post it.
-
- Rob
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