DataCon tag value convention

[Sebastian Graf]

You probably couldn't do pointer tagging
<https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/commentary/rts/haskell-execution/pointer-tagging>
anymore, which is probably a substantial performance loss.

Am Mi., 12. Feb. 2020 um 19:58 Uhr schrieb Csaba Hruska <
csaba.hruska at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> In theory could GHC codegen work if every data constructor in the whole
> program  have a globally unique tag value instead of starting from 1 for
> each algebraic data type?
> Would this break any GHC design decision?
>
> Regards,
> Csaba
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