Re: introspection in SML

On 4 Dec 2007 23:24:15 GMT, Vesa Karvonen
<vesa.karvonen@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Rainer Joswig <joswig@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Whether you or the tool you are using is optimizing it, is the same.
>
>I fundamentally disagree.  Tool time is essentially free.  My time is
>what matters.  If I would still be hacking Scheme on my free time, I
>would probably be using Stalin (at least occasionally) to compile some
>of my programs.

Then you would _know_ that "tool time" is not free.  Stalin is an
excellent compiler but it is one of the absolute slowest around.  And
Stalin is not current wrt Scheme so you might end up hand implementing
a lot of stuff other compilers already have.

George
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