[m-rev.] Re: for review: parsing_utils improvements

[Ian MacLarty]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> On 29-Sep-2009, Ian MacLarty <maclarty at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>> Another compromise could be to set a flag in the src that indicates
>> whether the mutable should be updated at all.  If you ran the parser
>> outside the parse/4 predicate then the mutable would simply never be
>> updated.
>
> In some cases, testing whether you should do something is as expensive
> as just doing it.
>

Okay.  I guess I should benchmark it to see if this is one of those cases.

Ian.

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