[Haskell-cafe] compressed pointers?

[John Meacham]

jhc packs data into pointers when possible. so for instance

data Foo = Foo !Word16 !Word32

gets encoded as

    -------------------------------
    | 16 bits | 32 bits | ... | 10|
    -------------------------------

This particularly helps strings, where the character can often be
encoded in the space of the pointer itself. (even on 32 bit
architecturs, as Char is only 24 bits in jhc)

        John

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