[fpc-devel] Pure function Wiki page

[Ryan Joseph]

> On Jul 8, 2018, at 8:50 AM, J. Gareth Moreton <gareth at moreton-family.com> wrote:
> 
> With some blessing from Florian on the concept, I've set up a Wiki page discussing the design proposals for the support of pure functions, as well as some explanation on what they actually are.
> 

What are the performance benefits? It sounds like this is a proposal for a compiler optimization which we can explicitly opt in to, but what exactly is the optimization?

If nothing else I like the idea as a way to enforce a function is not accessing global state. Kind of like const for functions.

Regards,
	Ryan Joseph