L. David Baron wrote:
> On Monday 2006-05-01 09:05 +1200, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>> L. David Baron wrote:
>>> To clarify this a little:  inline reflow is fundamentally an operation
>>> on lists, not trees.  (Inline frames, which are containers, just put two
>>> items in the list:  one before their children and one after.)  If we do
>>> this algorithm by walking the list, without recursion into methods, then
>>> we can split things more easily and just keep going without having to go
>>> out of the recursion and then back into it on the new continuation
>>> objects.
>> This sounds like something that would be post 1.9 if we did it ... I
>> don't see a driving need to do it for 1.9.
> 
> That's fine, although I fear significant work on the current code may be
> somewhat painful.

The redo stuff that I've already implemented and the stuff that I just
proposed don't feel too painful to me. I think the main reason to do
what you're proposing would be performance.

Rob
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