Hi On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 21:24 +0000, Sebastian Sylvan wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH > <allb...@ece.cmu.edu> 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.
Yes, that was what I tried to convey. Thanks, for clarifying for me. /Mads > > > -- > Sebastian Sylvan
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