[m-dev.] for review: --delay-constructs

[Fergus Henderson]

On 08-Mar-2001, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> compiler/delay_construct.m:
> 	A new module for delaying construction unifications past builtins in
> 	conjunctions that can fail. The idea is to incur the cost of memory
> 	allocation only if those tests succeed. This can speed up code (e.g.
> 	tests/benchmarks/query) by integer factors.

The new module should be documented in notes/compiler_design.html.

[To be continued.]

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