[m-dev.] mercury home page

[Fergus Henderson]

Tyson Richard DOWD, you wrote:
> 
> > I don't like the phrase "numerous optimization/time trade-offs" in the
> > second paragraph of the Mercury home page.  However, I can't think of
> > a good replacement.  Any suggestions?
> 
> The old sentence was:
> 
> 	Mercury addresses the problems of large-scale program
> 	development, allowing modularity, separate compilation, and
> 	numerous optimization/time trade-offs.
> 
> How about:
> 
> 	Mercury addresses the problems of large-scale program
>         development, allowing modularity, separate compilation, and
> 	control over compile-time/run-time trade-offs.

This sentence is better.  Now I understand what you are trying to say.
However, in fact we actually don't have a very good range of trade-offs,
because compile time ranges from slow to very slow, rather than from fast
to very slow.  Also, this is a feature of the Mercury compiler, rather than
of the language.

Um, I still can't think of a good replacement ;-)

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