[m-dev.] alias branch

[David Overton]

On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 04:48:41PM EST, Simon Taylor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is mainly to David Overton.
> 
> I've updated the alias branch. The problem is that compiler/rl_code.m
> contains several switches with 340 elements, which results in
> long compile times (>30 minutes), so committing this as is really
> isn't a good idea (although it is a good test case).
> 
> One thing I was considering doing was to reincarnate the mercury_compile.pp
> file to allow the Aditi support to be conditionally left out of the compiler.
> Any other suggestions?
> 
How much work would it be to do this?  If it's not too difficult, it
might be a good temporary solution.  I'm just starting to look at an
alternative representation for insts that should hopefully make the
mode checker much more efficient.  However it will be some time before
this is implemented.


David
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