On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 26, 2010, at 16:28 , Mads Lindstrøm wrote: > >> For some time I have been thinking about an idea, which could limit >> Haskell's memory footprint. I don't know if the idea is crazy or clever, >> > > This is called pointer tagging. The original STG design avoided it because > of the perceived performance loss in removing the tags before using the > pointer, but as I understand it the current GHC design uses limited tagging. I don't think that's what he's talking about. He's saying the data that would normally be on the other side of the pointer would instead be stored "inline", if I understand him correctly. -- Sebastian Sylvan
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