Cost of Overloading vs. HOFs

[John Meacham]

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:07:41PM -0700, Conal Elliott wrote:
> Does anyone know what became of Dictionary-free Overloading by Partial
> Evaluation <http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/%7Empj/pubs/pepm94.html>?  Is it
> impractical for some reason?

jhc also uses a dictionary free approach, doing a case directly on the
type parameter.

The nice thing about this is that _all_ methods can be determined by a
single case evaluation, because finding out the right instance for any
method will determine the right instance for all other methods too for a
given type. The standard case-of-known-value optimization takes care of
later scrutinizations (method lookups) on the same type. 

        John


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