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Re: build tree nodes vs expand as you go
- To: fjh at cs dot mu dot oz dot au (Fergus Henderson)
- Subject: Re: build tree nodes vs expand as you go
- From: Joern Rennecke <amylaar at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:14:28 +0000 (GMT)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> What are the trade-offs here?
>
> At first glance expanding them directly looks a little simpler,
> but I'm worried I may be missing something...
If you don't emit trees, you won't be able to use tree-based optimizations.
OTOH, you save some memory during compile time.