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From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: What is wrong with OO ?
Date: 1997/01/12
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dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:

>Fergus said, responding to me
>
>">To implement such a switch would be about thirty minutes work in GNAT, but
>>I doubt it would be found to be of much use in practice, certainly no one
>>has indicated an interest in such a switch.
>
>Let me hereby indicate interest in such a switch!
>I think it would be quite useful in practice."
>
>Well of course people are interested if it costs them nothing to be
>interested :-)

We were interested enough to implement this in the Mercury compiler.

Compiling the Mercury compiler with inter-module inlining enabled
improved performance by about 10%.

--
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PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3         |     -- the last words of T. S. Garp.