On Nov 7, 2006, at 3:53 PM, Mike Stump wrote:
Anyway, in C++, the entire template mechanism was rife with building
up duplicates.
Oh, and as for why not having a canonical type is bad, callers to
comptypes are notorious for just beating it to death:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2002-11/msg00537.html
My conclusion at the end was, the best speed up possible, isn't to
mess with the callers, but rather, to get types canonicalized, then
all the work that comptypes would normally do, hopefully, just all
goes away. Though, in the long run those quadratic algorithms have to
one day die, even if comptypes is fixed.
