On 29/04/2020 23:29, J. Gareth Moreton wrote: > Pure functions are a slightly tricky one because there is a lot of > overlap with inline functions and constant propagation, and yet there > are concepts that aren't covered by either, such as 'promotion' of pure > function calls outside of loops and assignment of pure function results > to compile-time constants.
Your original message stated that you were looking at a way to develop "'node emulation' so it can step through a pure function and compute output values". I'm not saying "the constant propagation optimisation does the same as pure functions". I'm saying "'node emulation' of a function is the same as constant propagation through that function, pure or not". Jonas _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
