[m-rev.] diff: tabling via extra args (part 1 of 4)

[Fergus Henderson]

On 07-Jun-2004, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Reduce the overhead of all forms of tabling by eliminating in many cases
> the overhead of transferring data across the C/Mercury boundary. These
> involve lots of control transfers as well as assignments to and from
> Mercury abstract machine registers, which are not real machine registers
> on x86 machines. Benchmarking in Uppsala revealed this overhead to be
> a real problem.

Did you consider rewriting the tabling procedures in Mercury,
rather making more use of C code?

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