Improving the Int/Word story inside GHC

[Carter Schonwald]

would this result in evolving how vector/array indexing works internally to
using Words rather than Ints?


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com>
wrote:

>
> | > 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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