At 10:02 PM 1/15/2004 +0100, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:At 15:51 -0500 1/15/04, Melvin Smith wrote:Comments & questions welcome.
Why am I thinking of the "register" keyword in C?
I have no idea and I can't see the relationship. :)
I just realized my response sounded crass, and wasn't meant to be. I welcome comments, I just didn't understand what relation you were getting at. Feel free to point it out to me.
The context: Jonathan was asking about importing constants at runtime and/or constant namespaces.
Dan and I were discussing the issues and how routines with lots of package globals or constants would spend a significant part of their time retrieving symbols. Jonathan did not want compile time constants, Dan did not want "importable" constants that mutate the bytecode at runtime, so I was trying to come up with a compromise, ugly as it may be.
Weird optimizations are ok in my book if they can be hidden in a back-end compiler.
-Melvin
