[mercury-users] Notes for a talk.

[Peter Schachte]

On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

> The rule of thumb for Mercury performance will probably be the same
> as it was for Prolog:
>     - keep your data structures small
>     - keep frequently used data and infrequently used data apart
>     - use backtracking to keep your heap small

... except with the conservative garbage collector (ie, the one current
garbage collector), which doesn't permit heap to be reclaimed on
backtracking. 


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