Boxed versus Unboxed
Thomas Johnsson
johnsson@crt.se
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:17:01 +0200
Hal Daume III writes:
> data Int = Int Int#
>
> You can get more information that you really want from SPJ's paper
> "Implementing lazy functional languages on stock hardware: the Spineless
> Tagless G-machine" which talks about this issue.
SPJ's paper "unboxed values as first class citizens" is more specifically about
this subject, see http://research.microsoft.com/users/simonpj/Papers/papers.html#compiler .
-- Thomas