<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow"> <title>KnownCase - MLton Standard ML Compiler (SML Compiler)</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" charset="iso-8859-1" media="all" href="common.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" charset="iso-8859-1" media="screen" href="screen.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" charset="iso-8859-1" media="print" href="print.css"> <link rel="Start" href="Home"> </head> <body lang="en" dir="ltr"> <script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript"> _uacct = "UA-833377-1"; urchinTracker(); </script> <table bgcolor = lightblue cellspacing = 0 style = "border: 0px;" width = 100%> <tr> <td style = " border: 0px; color: darkblue; font-size: 150%; text-align: left;"> <a class = mltona href="Home">MLton MLTONWIKIVERSION</a> <td style = " border: 0px; font-size: 150%; text-align: center; width: 50%;"> KnownCase <td style = " border: 0px; text-align: right;"> <table cellspacing = 0 style = "border: 0px"> <tr style = "vertical-align: middle;"> </table> <tr style = "background-color: white;"> <td colspan = 3 style = " border: 0px; font-size:70%; text-align: right;"> <a href = "Home">Home</a> <a href = "TitleIndex">Index</a> </table> <div id="content" lang="en" dir="ltr"> KnownCase is an optimization pass for the <a href="SSA">SSA</a> <a href="IntermediateLanguage">IntermediateLanguage</a>, invoked from <a href="SSASimplify">SSASimplify</a>. <h2 id="head-55f8ebc805e65b5b71ddafdae390e3be2bcd69af">Description</h2> <p> This pass duplicates and simplifies <tt>Case</tt> transfers when the constructor of the scrutinee is known. </p> <p> Uses <a href="Restore">Restore</a>. </p> <p> For example, the program <pre class=code> <B><FONT COLOR="#A020F0">val</FONT></B> <B><FONT COLOR="#A020F0">rec</FONT></B> last = <B><FONT COLOR="#A020F0">fn</FONT></B> [] => <B><FONT COLOR="#5F9EA0">0</FONT></B> | [x] => x | _ :: l => last l <B><FONT COLOR="#A020F0">val</FONT></B> _ = <B><FONT COLOR="#5F9EA0">1</FONT></B> + last [<B><FONT COLOR="#5F9EA0">2</FONT></B>, <B><FONT COLOR="#5F9EA0">3</FONT></B>, <B><FONT COLOR="#5F9EA0">4</FONT></B>, <B><FONT COLOR="#5F9EA0">5</FONT></B>, <B><FONT COLOR="#5F9EA0">6</FONT></B>, <B><FONT COLOR="#5F9EA0">7</FONT></B>] </PRE> gives rise to the <a href="SSA">SSA</a> function <pre>fun last_0 (x_142) = loopS_1 () loopS_1 () loop_11 (x_142) loop_11 (x_143) case x_143 of nil_1 => L_73 | ::_0 => L_74 L_73 () return global_5 L_74 (x_145, x_144) case x_145 of nil_1 => L_75 | _ => L_76 L_75 () return x_144 L_76 () loop_11 (x_145) </pre>which is simplified to <pre>fun last_0 (x_142) = loopS_1 () loopS_1 () case x_142 of nil_1 => L_73 | ::_0 => L_118 L_73 () return global_5 L_118 (x_230, x_229) L_74 (x_230, x_229, x_142) L_74 (x_145, x_144, x_232) case x_145 of nil_1 => L_75 | ::_0 => L_114 L_75 () return x_144 L_114 (x_227, x_226) L_74 (x_227, x_226, x_145) </pre> </p> <h2 id="head-8781d615fd77be9578225c40ac67b9471394cced">Implementation</h2> <a href = "http://mlton.org/cgi-bin/viewsvn.cgi/mlton/tags/on-MLTONWIKIVERSION-release/mlton/ssa/known-case.sig?view=markup"><img src="moin-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="11" width="11">known-case.sig</a> <a href = "http://mlton.org/cgi-bin/viewsvn.cgi/mlton/tags/on-MLTONWIKIVERSION-release/mlton/ssa/known-case.fun?view=markup"><img src="moin-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="11" width="11">known-case.fun</a> <h2 id="head-35ec00231a68203708e39f0e2cc10b50c6bf62de">Details and Notes</h2> <p> One interesting aspect of KnownCase, is that it often has the effect of unrolling list traversals by one iteration, moving the <tt>nil</tt>/<tt>::</tt> check to the end of the loop, rather than the beginning. </p> </div> <p> <hr> Last edited on 2006-11-02 17:54:28 by <span title="76.16.241.4"><a href="MatthewFluet">MatthewFluet</a></span>. </body></html>