Module `IStdlib.PhysEqual`

val shallow_equal : 'a -> 'a -> bool

Helpers function to enforce physical equality.

Let suppose construct/deconstruct is a 1-level-allocation OCaml construction/deconstruction, such as variant type, tuple or record construction. Instead of writing

let a = deconstruct a0 in
let b = deconstruct b0 in
let res = f a b in
if phys_equal res a then a0 else if phys_equal res b then b0 else construct res

Simply write

PhysEqual.optim2 ~res:(construct (f a b)) a0 b0

val optim1 : res:'a -> 'a -> 'a
val optim2 : res:'a -> 'a -> 'a -> 'a