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Re: Immediate pointers
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: Immediate pointers |
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Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:07:24 +0200 |
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On Sun 30 Jan 2011 23:46, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> The problem is that each ‘make-pointer’ call (and ‘dereference-pointer’,
> etc.) conses. This can make conversion to/from C quite inefficient.
We could simply allow Scheme integers to work as pointers. It's not
very nice though.
Also, arguably, floating-point numbers are a bigger deal to get as
immediate objects...
Andy
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