On 2010-11-07 01:41:47 -0500, Don <nos...@nospam.com> said:
The guarantee of independence is the most important feature. From a performance point of view, the big win 'pure' gives you comes from memory management. All memory allocation can be done using a thread-local memory pool.
Hum, are you sure about that? If a pure function allocates and returns a string, nothing prevents the non-pure calling function from sending that string to another thread. If that string is allocated from a thread-local pool, what happens?
-- Michel Fortin michel.for...@michelf.com http://michelf.com/
