Re: Ann: SWI-Prolog 7.1.0

Michael Hendricks <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ai.prolog.swi
Message-ID <CAFHuXubv_Y5DDzC60bCEACCchxV-bx-46sQ0ryBmfa4CpkWGdg@mail.gmail.com>
On Dec 7, 2013 2:56 AM, "Jan Wielemaker" <[email protected]> wrote:
> All true.  Just, Prolog systems can also nicely generate a switch-on-tag
> from code such as
>
> do(X) :- atom(X), ....
> do(X) :- number(X), ...
> do(X) :- string(X), ...
>
> etc.  Properly implemented, the above should be faster than code like this
>
> do(atom(X)) :-
> do(number(X)) :-
> do(string(X)) :-

Is there an efficient term_tag(+Term, -Tag:atom) predicate so we can
manually perform this optimization when wanted?

do(X) :-
    term_tag(X, Tag),
    do_(Tag, X).
do_(Tag, X) :-
    ...

-- 
Michael
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