Re: C++

"Jonathan S. Shapiro" <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Nov 2009 06:44:12 -0800

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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 2:20 AM, William Leslie
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Polyinstantiation has been a big topic for bitc. See:
>
> http://www.bitc-lang.org/docs/bitc/bitc-origins.html#Polyinstantiation
>
> "Parametric types, explicit unboxing, and separate compilation do not
> get along. "

Subsequent to that paper, we worked out how to do light-weight
link-time specialization, which would have been implemented in the
next implementation.

shap