[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Harpy -- run-time code generation library

[Dirk Kleeblatt]

Hi Duncan,

Duncan Coutts schrieb:
> I was wondering what the need for ensureBufferSize is? Could this by
> automated? I would have thought that we could just check this when
> writing out a single instruction.

Yes, of course, this would be possible. The only reason is a performance 
improvement when checking for buffer overflows as seldom as possible. We 
use Harpy in a just-in-time compilation project for a functional 
language, an my colleague wants to do this as fast as possible. But one 
could argue that in a functional language library interface elegance is 
more important...

Kind regards,
   Dirk
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