On 9/6/2011 8:03, Warp wrote:
> Darren New<dne### [at] sanrrcom>  wrote:
>> Then the old heap is in oldheap and the new heap is in newheap.
>
>    Is this supposed to be efficient?

If your functional language is pure enough, your compiler can often optimize 
out the apparent inefficiency. Of course, that requires a Sufficiently Smart 
Compiler.

In practice, it's less efficient, but not as obviously awful as it would appear.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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