[m-dev.] Reuse question

[Fergus Henderson]

On 02-Oct-2000, Ralph Becket <rbeck at microsoft.com> wrote:
> >From Peter Ross on 02/10/2000 15:12:14
> > Yes the current analysis detects that there is reuse available there
> > provided that the original list is never needed again.
> 
> This is really rather excellent.  I've been chatting to the Haskell and
> ML people here and they don't do structure reuse analysis.  Everybody
> seems to think it's pretty exciting - maybe this is going to be the mode
> system's Big Redeeming Feature.

FWIW, since about a year or two ago the Clean compiler does structure
reuse in at least some cases.

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