Removing the use of CONSTRUCTOR for Vectors
Chris Lattner
clattner@apple.com
Sun Sep 17 19:02:00 GMT 2006
On Sep 17, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-17 at 10:33 -0700, Chris Lattner wrote:
>> On Sep 16, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>>
>>> I just got crazy idea, since we really don't like CONSTRUCTOR that
>>> much
>>> and we already know the lengths of Vectors, we can have a
>>> VECTOR_EXPR
>>> which we could then use instead of CONSTRUCTORs.
>>
>> What don't you like about CONSTRUCTOR's?
>
> For memory usage for vector type, they are use too much memory, more
> than twice than what is needed for a vector.
Isn't that also true for densely initialized arrays? I'd expect
arrays to be far more commonly used than vectors. Why make the new
construction specific to vectors?
-Chris
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