From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Beware: Rep spec on an enumeration type causes code explosion
Date: 1997/12/12
Date: 1997-12-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.881952155@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: qw6k9daadwo.fsf@esmeralda.enst.fr
Sam said
<<This kind of code is horrible as he admits, but I don't think it is
wrong; they just consider the RAM as being an external device, thus
using a holey boolean type.
>>
If the horrible here refers to inefficiency, this is wrong, the use of a
derived Boolean type of this kind will have no efficiency impact on typical
code on most machines, well perhaps there could be one extra instruction in
a comparison on *some* machines.
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1997-12-05 0:00 Beware: Rep spec on an enumeration type causes code explosion Joe Gwinn
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-10 0:00 ` GNORT information ( Was Re: Beware: Rep spec on an enumeration type causes code explosion ) Mark Bennison
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Beware: Rep spec on an enumeration type causes code explosion Kevin D. Heatwole
[not found] ` <dewar.881478386@merv>
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Jim Gleason
1997-12-06 0:00 ` David Marshall
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1997-12-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-14 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-12-11 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-12-16 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-12-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-16 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-12-17 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-17 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-12-18 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-17 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Alan E & Carmel J Brain
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-15 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-12-16 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Rakesh Malhotra
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Rakesh Malhotra
1997-12-14 0:00 ` Alan E & Carmel J Brain
1997-12-12 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-15 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-16 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-16 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-08 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1997-12-09 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1997-12-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
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1997-12-09 0:00 tmoran
1997-12-11 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-12-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-12-11 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
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