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

Tyson Richard DOWD trd at students.cs.mu.oz.au
Sat Sep 27 12:32:25 AEST 1997


Fergus Henderson wrote:
> 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"?

Yeah, that's fine.

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