# -Original Message-
# From: Bryan C. Warnock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
# Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 3:01 PM
# To: Brent Dax; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Subject: Re: Deoptimizations
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# On Saturday 01 September 2001 05:07 pm, Brent Dax wrote:
# > Of course, the hard part is detecting w
On Saturday 01 September 2001 05:07 pm, Brent Dax wrote:
> Of course, the hard part is detecting when the optimization is invalid.
> While there are simple situations:
>
> sub FOO {"foo"}
>
> print FOO;
>
> evaluating to:
>
> /-no--"foo"-\
> op
# -Original Message-
# From: Bryan C. Warnock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
# Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 12:29 PM
# To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Subject: Deoptimizations
#
#
# Random musings from a discussion I had yesterday. (And check
# me on my
# assumptions, please.)
#
# One of the mo
Random musings from a discussion I had yesterday. (And check me on my
assumptions, please.)
One of the more common lamentations is that a dynamic language (like Perl)
doesn't mix well with optimizations, because the majority of optimizations
are done at compile time, and the state at compile
