contification paper

Stephen Weeks MLton@sourcelight.com
Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:08:21 -0800 (PST)


> I guess, but that doesn't show that the actual transformation isn't that
> costly.  Maybe take the max of all the times?  Or, just say that the
> estimated transformation time (say, contify time of {call,cont,dom} -
> contify time of none) was never more than X% of the total compile time,
> where X is some small number
> 
> (One thing that is interesting is mlyacc, where None has the highest
> percentage, simply because it has so many functions at the later passes.) 

How about even simpler.  The table just has lines and total compile time, and we 
say in the text that contification never takes more than 4% of compile time.