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From:
Ilya Zakharevich
Date:
March 4, 2000 13:32
Subject:
Re: my Dog $bar
Message ID:
20000304163231.A28294@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu
[This was a discussion of PREPARE-type call done during
my Dog $snoopy;
while the subroutine to call is specified via 'use overload prepare'
pragma in Dog.]
On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 06:13:43PM -0800, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> >As I did (?) demonstrate a year ago, introduction of a handful of new
> >opcodes which combine most frequent combinations of "atomic" opcodes
> >might speed the latter case up to 2x. Thus I see no reason why new
> >opcode may be *an obstacle* for including a patch.
>
> Adding an opcode is not the obstacle per se. Adding an opcode as a
> cheap hack (instead of doing it right) is.
I strongly object to calling a solution "a cheap hack" without a
proper justification. My solution is
a) Behaving as people would expect;
b) Very simple;
c) Very efficient;
The alternatives you proposed would break at least two of these
features. There is nothing hackish in the patch I sent.
Ilya
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