returning to cost of Integer

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Simon,

Wednesday, August 2, 2006, 4:06:48 PM, you wrote:

>> Actually, you can keep it to one test for add/subtract if you
>> use a single word that is either a number or a pointer, the
>> pointer being tagged in lowest bit.  Then you can add first
>> and check for tags after.  Having tags is rare, so the machine
>> should be told so, if possible.  This way you can keep the
>> overhead for bignums really low.  But it requires very special
>> handling of bignums and I'm not sure it's worth it.

it's used in Ocaml, btw

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