From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Depending on passing mechanism
Date: 1997/10/15
Date: 1997-10-15T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971015210344.26249A-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.876952904@merv
On 15 Oct 1997, Robert Dewar wrote:
> ... about procedure argument passing ...
>
> Similarly, over-constraining the order of evaluation (which
> affects only programs with strange side effects) can significantly damange
> the efficiency of generated code.
I have seen this particular claim challenged by several other
compiler writers and no evidence was advanced to support it. Do you have
evidence that leaving order of evaluation arbitrary is a performance
enabler?
FWIW, one of my favorite languages (Sather) has order of
evaluation of defined in its specification, and the designers definitely
wanted a language which could be compiled to fast code with existing
compiler technology.
-- Brian
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-13 0:00 Depending on passing mechanism Andre Spiegel
1997-10-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-14 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1997-10-15 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-15 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
1997-10-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1997-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-17 0:00 ` Andre Spiegel
1997-10-17 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1997-10-17 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-10-17 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-10-15 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1997-10-15 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-10-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-10-17 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1997-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-10-18 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-19 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
[not found] ` <dewar.877601826@merv>
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-10-19 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-10-19 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-10-20 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-10-20 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1997-10-20 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-10-18 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-10-15 0:00 ` JP Thornley
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-10-22 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Henry Baker
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1997-10-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-23 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-10-21 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-10-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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