Hello John,
Thursday, August 3, 2006, 1:25:45 AM, you wrote:
evaluated. If the contents of the constructor itself can be packed into
the other 30 bits, then there's no need for a pointer at all. For
enumerated types, you can use all 31 bits for the tag, since only 1 bit is
required to
Hi
(i know about Haskell standard, but how many programs relies on 32-bit
Ints?)
The standard demands the range [-2^29 .. 2^29 - 1]
You don't have a problem, some were reserved for you already.
Thanks
Neil
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Hello John,
Tuesday, August 1, 2006, 5:19:37 AM, you wrote:
This has made me wonder whether we are better off getting rid of the
small integer optimization and turning Integer into a straight
unboxable ForeignPtr to a GMP number. this would also mean we could use
the standard GMP that comes
