From: Geoffrey Irving (irving_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-09-21 15:13:10
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:08:15PM -0400, Michael Fawcett wrote:
> On 9/21/06, Geoffrey Irving <irving_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >
> > It's hard to be certain since they didn't actually show the code they were
> > compiling, but judging by their pseudocode that test is entirely insufficient.
> > If i is a compile time constant, v[i] is easy to optimize. The hard case is
> > if i is a arbitrary runtime integer, as mentioned in my previous email.
>
> Absolutely, it's entirely out of the question if i is not a
> compile-time constant.
The code I posted trivially reduces to array lookup for any i, so it's
certainly not "out of the question" based on the desired interface.
Geoffrey