[xquery-talk] xquery 3.1 wishlist

[Michael Kay]

> On 28 Jun 2015, at 19:32, W.S. Hager <wshager at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> One more consideration: function calls seem to be more expensive than inline expressions.

Saxon and I’m sure other products will inline function calls when they consider it appropriate. Because XQuery is side-effect-free and has no polymorphism, this is a pretty straightforward optimization.


> And then there's that baggage of a custom library...
> 

I’m not sure what you’re referring to here.

Michael Kay
Saxonica