Re: A comment on language wars.

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From: Mark Friedman
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1991 21:59

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In article <-K.9TE3@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter
da Silva) writes:

   In article <MARKF.91Mar12151509@montreux.ai.mit.edu>
   markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu writes:

   > It is not necessary for the running of the procedure. One could
   > in principle build a non-gc version of the system which did not
   > require that information.

   So the procedure is actually built dynamically at runtime?

Yes.  But note that the code for the procedure is built once; only the
environment needs to be built at runtime, assuming that any
environment needs to be built at all (the compiler may determine that
some procedures don't need an environment).

-Mark
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Mark Friedman
MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
545 Technology Sq.
Cambridge, Ma. 02139

markf@zurich.ai.mit.edu

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