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by lmm
689 days ago
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> The OCaml compiler, great as it is, won't turn linked list source code into array machine code. Why not? If the compiler can see that you have a short-lived local linked list and are using it in a way for which an array would be faster, why would it not do the same thing that an array would do? |
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Because it doesn't. Doesn't mean it couldn't, if it tried hard enough. But it doesn't, as a statement of current fact.