[mercury-users] Flattening (was: maybe(T))

[Zoltan Somogyi]

On 21-Oct-2002, Michael Day <mikeday at yeslogic.com> wrote:
> If the optimisation is easy to implement but difficult to automatically
> apply, why not support it via the use of a pragma, and let the programmer
> be the profiler feedback facility until the automated one has been
> completed?

(1) Because programmers have been shown, on many occasions, to be a pretty
bad source of information about performance characteristics of their programs.

(2) I didn't say it would be "easy" to implement; I just said "relatively
easy", i.e. easier than something else, which in this case happens to be
really hard.

Zoltan.
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