[MLton] [MLton-commit] r4217

Matthew Fluet fluet@cs.cornell.edu
Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:04:22 -0500 (EST)


>> gcState (as a symbol) is available both in the Basis Library
>> implementation and in the backend.  So, eliminate silly wrapper
>> functions that do nothing by pass the gcState address.
>
> There is one benefit of such wrapper functions: calling them takes
> less code space.  Not that I think eliminating them is a big deal.

Fair enough, but all such wrappers were with very MLton specific code, so 
I doubt that they are heavily used by many applications.