From: Dalibor Sramek <dali@...>
Date: 2003-01-06T16:14:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Compile time constant folding?

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 11:15:46AM +0900, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> You'd be surprised, especially when you factor in some other 
> optimizations--you can do some substitutions and inferences of 
> variable contents.

Could the programmer help the compiler with guessing when the
optimization is feasible?
For (imperfect) example if I use

Fixnum.freeze

in the code I am telling the compiler to optimize 3 + 5 ?

Dalibor Sramek

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