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Re: Dump float support?
- To: Michael Livshin <mlivshin at bigfoot dot com>
- Subject: Re: Dump float support?
- From: Mikael Djurfeldt <mdj at mdj dot nada dot kth dot se>
- Date: 13 Mar 2000 16:45:42 +0100
- Cc: Mikael Djurfeldt <djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se>, guile at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, Greg dot Harvey at thezone dot net, mjs at eazel dot com, jimb at red-bean dot com
- Cc: djurfeldt at nada dot kth dot se
- References: <E12UWVe-0006CK-00@mdj.nada.kth.se> <s3ityqevx9.fsf@verisity.com>
Michael Livshin <mlivshin@bigfoot.com> writes:
> as I understand, at least one reason for keeping floats is that on
> Alpha (and maybe other 64bit archs) they can be immediate.
>
> I'm not sure whether I'm talking nonsense or not right now, though.
Well, you're talking about a new type from the perspective of the
interpreter.
I think we should add this type, along with other types (like certain
smobs) which also can be treated thusly, later, but not before most
machines are 64bit.
(My opinion.)