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Article #3855Pointers
From: Herman Rubin
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:07
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:07
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In article <waterman.722038647@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> waterman@cs.brandeis.edu writes:
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>>I do not see how any system of references will enable writing
>> *fill(*descriptor)
>>any faster.
>How about
> fill(descriptor) ?
>Remeber, the dereferencing of the names 'fill' and 'descriptor'
>are done only once, at _compile_ time, and don't take up a single
>iota of energy at _run_ time.
"This does not compute." The module which produces the contents of
fill and descriptor is compiled separately from the one that calls it.
In addition, I specified that there may even be run-time changes, which
the calling module does not know.
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Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!netsys!decwrl!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!hrubin From: hrubin@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) Subject: Pointers Message-ID: <Bxw0H0.6EF@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department References: <mwm.2n3n@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <BxrK6x.A04@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <waterman.722038647@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:07:45 GMT Lines: 26