On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Richard Hainsworth wrote:
> A closer examination of Martin's message indicates that he tends to think
> that hitting a junction ought to thread the entire program throughout the
> rest of the lifespan of said junction

Yes -- and well put, thank-you.

The trick is that since conditionals generally force full or partial
resolution on junctions, that lifetime won't tend to be very long.

Re: Tsa's comment about junctions being "value types". In principle I agree,
except that the value semantics are only within the eigenthreads; outside
that, they are collections of indeterminate state. Indeterminate states
aren't sufficiently "value-like" to justify "constant folding".

-Martin

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