[MLton] Int Overflow detection
Matthew Fluet
fluet@cs.cornell.edu
Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:41:48 -0500 (EST)
> I wanted to compare mlton's performance with gcc on this platform (cygwin, x86)
> and wanted a fair test.
The test is fair in the sense that it computes the same value, but unfair
in the sense that this is not a typical SML program, nor a program that is
susceptible to the kinds of optimizations towards which MLton has invested
time and effort.
> I am only showing the main loop here (this is with int overflow turned off).
> So it's 4 instructions for gcc versus 9 for mlton.
I doubt this has any significant affect on run-time performance.
> I have not timed the loops. If there is interest I could do that.
I think that would be more instructive than counting instructions.