[m-rev.] For review: Convert Mercury terms to XML

[Ralph Becket]

Ian MacLarty, Monday,  6 December 2004:
> >
> >I agree with Ralph here on general principles, but I would like to know
> >what the efficiency hit for the C backend is if you take out the pragma
> >memo.
> Okay I'll take it out.
> 
> The performance hit for a list of ints is 2.7% (i.e. it takes 2.7% 
> longer without memoing).  With a list of values of mytype (see below) 
> it takes 27.2% longer.

On that basis I'd vote for retining it.
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