From: "Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@callnetuk.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for Ada Technique Name and References
Date: 2000/02/23
Date: 2000-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <38b32dca@eeyore.callnetuk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 88svc0$nkj$1@coward.ks.cc.utah.edu
"John Halleck" <nahaj@u.cc.utah.edu> wrote in message
news:88svc0$nkj$1@coward.ks.cc.utah.edu...
> ...
> This trick is *** NOT *** supported by most languages.
I don't think I've ever encountered any language that allows a function
composition itself to be specially defined. The nearest thing is when
compilers do optimisations.
A classic case is where a 'mod' is done between two operands just after (or
before) a divide is done between the same operands. Many compilers will
optimise this into a single machine instruction (which computes both the
quotient and the modulus in one go).
--
Nick Roberts
http://www.adapower.com/lab/adaos
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[not found] ` <88kh6q$j4j$1@coward.ks.cc.utah.edu>
2000-02-18 0:00 ` Looking for Ada Technique Name and References Tucker Taft
2000-02-21 0:00 ` Diana Webster
2000-02-22 0:00 ` John Halleck
2000-02-22 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
2000-02-22 0:00 ` John Halleck
2000-02-22 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-02-22 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-02-23 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-02-23 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2000-02-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2000-02-28 0:00 ` Charles D. Hixson
2000-02-28 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-03-04 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-02-29 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-03-01 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-02-22 0:00 ` Gautier
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