[Haskell-cafe] Garbage collecting pointers

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Mar 26, 2010, at 16:28 , Mads Lindstrøm wrote:
> For some time I have been thinking about an idea, which could limit
> Haskell's memory footprint. I don't know if the idea is crazy or  
> clever,

This is called pointer tagging.  The original STG design avoided it  
because of the perceived performance loss in removing the tags before  
using the pointer, but as I understand it the current GHC design uses  
limited tagging.

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