Canonical type nodes, or, comptypes considered harmful

[Mike Stump]

On Nov 9, 2006, at 5:00 PM, Dale Johannesen wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Mike Stump wrote:
>    else if (p1->ptr_equality_suffices_for_this_type || p2- 
> >ptr_equality_suffices_for_this_type)
>           not equal
>    else
>           tree walk

For trivial things, those things that are fast anyway, you make them  
fast, for slow things, you make them slow, so, there isn't a net  
change in speed.