[mercury-users] threading states

[Fergus Henderson]

On 27-Jul-2000, Thomas Conway <conway at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 03:52:52PM EST, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > But even without optimizing them away, the cost of such arguments is
> > very small.  The main reason that we haven't bothered optimizing them
> > away is that we haven't found any important programs for which it
> > would make a significant difference.
> 
> What distinguishes a program as important?

I guess an important program is one for which there are likely to be
a lot of other programs that are similar to it.

But in the above quote what I really meant was that we haven't found any
real programs at all for which it would make a significant difference.
No doubt we could deliberately construct artificial programs for which
it would have a significant effect, but it's not something that I've
found to be an issue for any of the programs I've benchmarked.

However, since I wasn't 100% sure that we'd *never* found any real
program for which it would make a significant difference, I qualified
my statement.

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