On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:57 AM, Ryan Newton <rrnew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The ByteArray versions will be more annoying, requiring more variations, > but they are also less essential, because the user can always use > ForeignPtr and bits-atomic in this case, and I believe for our concurrent > data structures we want to store arbitrary pointers (hence casArray#). > This is true, although using bits-atomic does a function call (i.e the calls are not inlined), which would be pretty bad for performance. G -- Gregory Collins <g...@gregorycollins.net>
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