[m-dev.] for review: --no-const-ground-terms

[Peter Ross]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 08:42:37PM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> For structure reuse, what should ideally be done is
> 	(1) compile known-at-compile-time ground terms into static consts
> 	    iff they will not be reused
> 	(2) try to reuse terms which are not known at compile time in
> 	    preference to reusing terms which are known at compile time.
> 
> Turning off static ground term optimization entirely is going to hurt
> a lot; doing (1) should gain you back most of the benefits.
> 
I was talking to Nancy about this, and it is not that hard to implement,
so we will look at it as part of our optimization phase.

Pete
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