Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ncar!oddjob!mimsy!chris
From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Partial application in C
Message-ID: <12221@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 88 04:52:58 GMT
References: <3353@cognos.UUCP> <619@goofy.megatest.UUCP> <807@garth.UUCP> <828@garth.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Lines: 11

>It's easy to provide partial application and first class procedures
>using a heap (especially with garbage collection). It's not really necessary
>modify instruction space to do this.

True enough.  The modified I-space will be faster, though, at least if
the newly created procedures are called often.  There is no particular
reason that OSes should not have calls to create a new chunk of I-space
(or get rid of an old one), except that the demand for it has been low.
-- 
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163)
Domain:	chris@mimsy.umd.edu	Path:	uunet!mimsy!chris