Hi Marc,
I notice that in --enable-auto-forcing, doing (begin (define x (delay 1)) (+ a)), a still shows as a promise object in the REPL, and (##promise? a) evaluates to #t (even while as expected, the force is automatic so (+ a) evaluates to 1 etc.).
I had an impression that auto forcing was implemented through something like a read barrier, which would replace the slot containing the promise object, with the forced value.
This is not so currently. This means a memory access indirection remains at each access of a promise value, right?
Would it be trivial to implement such replacement as to remove that indirection?
Thanks!