[m-dev.] structure-sharing?

[Nancy]

doug.auclair at logicaltypes.com wrote:
> Dear Julien,
> 
> Thanks for the information; I'll read (reread?) the paper.  My
> guess was that structure-sharing would (truly) activate di/uo
> modes for, e.g., arrays and other rigidly-shaped data structures;
> good guess?  Does it have other applicability?

Well, yes and no. To stay in the di/uo terminology: the idea is to 
determine di/uo modes for any predicates manipulating whatever data... 
with the goal of destructively updating data (or plain reusing it for 
other data) whenever it is safe to do so.

Nancy

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