[m-dev.] diff: io.nu.nl performance fix

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.oz.au
Sat Sep 27 12:26:17 AEST 1997


Tyson Richard DOWD, you wrote:
> > +% Note: in C, the io__state is all represented as global variables.
> > +% But for Prolog, using assert/retract for global variables was
> > +% found to be much too slow.  So we do actually pass around an io__state.
> 
> "in C" is not quite right - perhaps "in Mercury" or "in the C Mercury
> runtime model" or something like that.

How about "In the C implementation"?

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