[m-dev.] Impurity syntax

[Fergus Henderson]

On 13-Aug-2004, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 13-Aug-2004, Ralph Becket <rafe at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> 
> > (5) The state items have no physical realisation; they exist purely as
> > an ordering mechanism.
> 
> This is a missing optimization. I once tried to do this I/O states, but
> realized that doing a proper job requires handling code that does things
> like put I/O states into terms. (You don't have to handle them optimally
> or even very well, but you have to handle them.)

FYI, this optimization is done for the MLDS back-end.

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