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- From: hrubin@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Pointers
- Message-ID: <Bxw0H0.6EF@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
- References: <mwm.2n3n@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <BxrK6x.A04@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <waterman.722038647@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:07:45 GMT
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- In article <waterman.722038647@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> waterman@cs.brandeis.edu writes:
-
- ............................
-
- >>I do not see how any system of references will enable writing
-
- >> *fill(*descriptor)
-
- >>any faster.
-
- >How about
- > fill(descriptor) ?
-
- >Remeber, the dereferencing of the names 'fill' and 'descriptor'
- >are done only once, at _compile_ time, and don't take up a single
- >iota of energy at _run_ time.
-
- "This does not compute." The module which produces the contents of
- fill and descriptor is compiled separately from the one that calls it.
- In addition, I specified that there may even be run-time changes, which
- the calling module does not know.
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- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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