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From: "Ehud Lamm" <mslamm@mscc.huji.ac.il>
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Subject: Re: A Record Interpretation of an Array
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 11:45:11 +0300
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> The idea is "abstract, then fulfill the abstractions" as opposed to
"pretend
> it's something else that is equivalent."
>

Yes. That's also the approach I'd use. But notice that there is going to be
overhead. Perhpas small enough not to matter, and perhaps it is going to be
possible to reduce it even more by inlining. But abstracting usually means
procedure calls.

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