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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!aiai!jeff
- From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
- Subject: What do compilers optimize?
- Message-ID: <7398@skye.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 18:25:54 GMT
- Sender: news@aiai.ed.ac.uk
- Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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- (Do any Lisp implementors read this newsgroup?)
-
- Are there any implementations that do any of the following (or
- something similar):
-
- * Turn a CASE in which the alternatives are integers into
- an indirect transfer?
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- * Use hashing for a CASE with many alternatives?
-
- * Allow fixnums (or floats) to be passed between procedures without
- any heap allocations (maybe just for local procedures in the same
- top-level form)?
-
- -- jd
-