On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Neil Toronto <neil.toro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/14/2012 07:38 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote: >> >> I've adjusted the bytecode compiler so that it can deal with more local >> types. To exercise the changes, fixnum results are tracked like flonum >> results, although the JIT doesn't currently take advantage of fixnum >> annotations. >> >> Now, it should be easy to add >> >> #define SCHEME_LOCAL_TYPE_EXTNUM 3 >> >> and fill in the extnum consumers and producers in >> wants_local_type_arguments() and produces_local_type(). Then the JIT >> changes should go the way you expect. >> >> I plan to clean up the JIT a little bit to make it easier to add extnum >> unboxing, but that's a smaller set of changes. Let me know when you >> start working, and I'll try to not change anything that would make it >> difficult to merge. I imagine that we'll be happy to merge your changes >> into the distribution. > > > This is pretty awesome.
Sorry maybe a dumb question but does this add the ability for the VM to support arbitrarily sized numbers? ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
