[m-dev.] for review: direct reuse

[Peter Schachte]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 12:20:10PM +1100, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:
> Yes. However, in the far future (say three years from now ;-), it may be
> possible for the compiler to analyze the program and some profile data,
> find out where non-uniform cell sizes are limiting reuse, and automatically
> modify its internal type definitions to *make* the cell sizes uniform
> (on at least some of the function symbols in the type) if doing so would
> gain more than it loses.

That sounds like a good idea, but it requires global analysis and compilation.
I thought that was philosophically verboten?

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