Improving the Int/Word story inside GHC

Simon Peyton Jones simonpj at microsoft.com
Thu Aug 7 21:37:06 UTC 2014


| > One thought is that the profiling word appears just *before* the start
| of a heap object, so that might need a negative offset, but it seems like
| a rather special case.
| 
| Hmmm... the profiling word is the second word of the object, after the
| info pointer.

Oh, OK, I'm mis-remembering that; apols.

Simon


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