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From: paulh@tektronix.UUCP (Paul Hoefling)
Newsgroups: net.lang
Subject: Re: Why displays are always faster than static links
Message-ID: <1502@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Nov-83 22:00:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Nov  2 22:00:23 1983
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>  actually, maybe i am missing something, but
>  with any machine with a reasonable stack architecture (which eliminates only
>  one major line of machines), saving and restoring a display should actually
>  take less work than setting up a static link, since displays are global and
>  the static scope level of a procedure is known at compile-time and is constant.

There is one minor problem with this statement, the static scope level of all
procedures is known at compile time *only* if the entire program is compiled
at once (ala standard Pascal) with a language that allows separate compilation,
this ain't necessarily so...

Happy computing...

Paul Hoefling
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