[MLton] regions
Henry Cejtin
henry@sourcelight.com
Fri, 1 Oct 2004 14:16:52 -0500
Just to add my 2 cents worth (more like 2/100-ths of a cent), it seems to me
that with regards to MLton performance, much of what regions gives you is a
very clever way to safely re-use memory instead of waiting for a GC (which,
as Stephen says, really does seem to be needed to be safe for space, and I
really REALLY want space safety). I wonder what could be done with MLton
with a `simple' pass to see where space can be re-used. E.g., mutate in
place or some really simple stack region-nursery.
Any way, just a random micro-thought.