> On Jul 8, 2018, at 8:50 AM, J. Gareth Moreton <gar...@moreton-family.com>
> wrote:
>
> With some blessing from Florian on the concept, I've set up a Wiki page
> discussing the design proposals for the support of pure functions, as well as
> some explanation on what they actually are.
>
What are the performance benefits? It sounds like this is a proposal for a
compiler optimization which we can explicitly opt in to, but what exactly is
the optimization?
If nothing else I like the idea as a way to enforce a function is not accessing
global state. Kind of like const for functions.
Regards,
Ryan Joseph
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