Douglas Gregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
| What would it take to get canonical type nodes in GCC? Nathan has | experimented with some pieces of it, and I have experimented with | others. It will likely be a large effort, but the payoff will be | worth it in the end. Is the GCC community interested in working on | this, and how would we go about doing it? As a data point: in fall 2004, Bjarne Stroustrup and myself did compare GCC's type representation with the type representation in the Pivot (which is based on what you call "canonical type nodes" -- we called it "unified type nodes") and measured about 90% of saving of duplicate nodes for types, when processing the canonical "hello world" program. A draft of the paper circulated at the last Redmond meeting. That was before GCC did a move to a more systematic partial unified type nodes. So, I'm all for it. -- Gaby
