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Re: Recursion Optimization
- To: zack at bitmover dot com
- Subject: Re: Recursion Optimization
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:19:32 -0700
- Cc: kevinatk at home dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <kevinatk@home.com><199908170147.SAA09697@zack.bitmover.com>
>>>>> "Zack" == Zack Weinberg <zack@bitmover.com> writes:
Zack> Before tackling tree optimizations, you would have to
Zack> convert all the front ends of interest to build one tree for
Zack> each function instead of one tree for each statement. This
Zack> is being done for C++ but not for other languages. (Mark:
Zack> will your work apply to C as well as C++?)
Not directly. But, in the long term, it is my opinion that the C
front-end and the C++ front-end should merge, or at least share a
tremendous amount of common code. At that point, C would benefit.
I'm hoping that my work will incentivize people to work in that
direction. :-)
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