From: Michael McNamara (mac@surefirev.com)
Date: Wed Aug 25 1999 - 17:07:00 PDT
Steven Sharp writes:
> I consider it unlikely that generates would have a significant impact on
> elaboration time, but it is possible. Keeping the approach to resolving
> the interactions between defparams and generates simple will help avoid
> inefficiencies like the need for multiple passes.
>
> As far as the contradictions that Alec is referring to, they appear to be
> related to those interactions. It is possible to recognize that this part
> of the proposal is broken without attempting to implement it first.
Indeed; although the converse is also true. For example, in
discussing standardizing signed arithmetic as proposed by Tom
Fitzgerald, even though Cadence has supported this feature for a
while, we were able to come up with a number of fixes to the Cadence
implementation.
Ideally, a thorough examination of the proposal, a candidate
implementation, and feedback from designers actually trying to use the
thing is best. We usually don't have such luxurys...
-mac
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