> A single-precision float and its > type header fits within a cons-cell, which saves space compared to a > boxed double-precision float.
Do these constant-factor space optimizations still matter to anybody in these days when I have 16 Gb in my cell phone? It's not like, e.g., tail call elimination, which is an order-of-growth space optimization. I'm guessing you have to expand that short float into a long float before you do arithmetic on it, anyway, right? _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
