Brian Harvey scripsit: > 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.
The speed still matters: out-of-band data requires at least an extra memory fetch, maybe more depending on the bus size, and that's becoming relatively more expensive all the time. > I'm guessing you have to expand that short float into a long float before > you do arithmetic on it, anyway, right? No. Modern processors fully support single-float, and so does ANSI/ISO C. -- Híggledy-pìggledy / XML programmers John Cowan Try to escape those / I-eighteen-N woes; http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Incontrovertibly / What we need more of is [email protected] Unicode weenies and / François Yergeaus. _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
