On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 8:15 PM, J. Gareth Moreton <gar...@moreton-family.com > wrote:
> Yes, if any parameters are variables, then the function is not evaluated. > My intention is that the purity of a function is only determined when it > comes to evaluating it in an expression, but because of how complex > functions can become, the "pure" directive hints to the compiler that the > given function is pure and it should attempt the laborous task of > evaluating it, rather than the opposite approach of attempting to evaluate > all functions with constant actual parameters and potentially increasing > the compilation time by several orders of magnitude (don't forget it might > be attempting to do the same thing with system functions if the project is > undergoing a full build). if FPC assembler reader powerful enough to analyze and trust assembler functions marked as pure? thanks, Dmitry
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