[m-dev.] two issues I need your input on about input specialization

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 1 Sept 2026 at 16:39, Peter Wang <novalazy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:13:05 +0200 "Zoltan Somogyi" <zoltan.somogyi at runbox.com> wrote:
> > I have no idea whether Simon intended to work on adding calls to actually
> > compute the codegen nonlocals, or whether he intended to hand over that
> > work to someone else, or what. (Simon's commits later that Feb all involved
> > Aditi.) The emails about that commit are not in the m-rev archive,
> > since that started in Oct 2000. I also don't know whether the people
> > who later worked on structure sharing/reuse knew about the codegen
> > nonlocals being fake. Peter, did you?
>
> I don't remember anything about the reuse work.
>
> > The difference between ordinary and codegen nonlocals is definitely
> > relevant to any work on structure reuse; no such system will work
> > without it. This means that Simon's work on computing codegen nonlocals
> > is potentially useful, though its usefulness is somewhat limited
> > by the fact that this code couldn't have ever been tested,
> > at least on the main trunk. (I don't know of any CVS branches
> > for this work, but there may have been some.)
>
> Yes, I seem to recall the original reuse work was done on a branch,
> so what we see on the main branch is probably just a stub.

If by original work you mean Nancy's work, then that was definitely
done on a branch of the CVS repository.

Julien.