On 2009-10-28, at 4:53 PM, John Cowan wrote: > Marc Feeley scripsit: > >> Not true. Lazy-task creation will do a very good job dynamically. >> Read my PhD thesis for details: > > I confess to not having read it yet, but it appears to be about > futures, > which are directly inserted into code by the programmer, not inferred > by the implementation for *every* argument of *every* call.
The overhead is so low that a compiler could automatically insert them for every formal parameter of procedure calls (except when they are trivial expressions like constants, variable references, or calls to primitives with trivial expression arguments). Marc _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
