[gambit-list] decreasing GC

Bradley Lucier lucier at math.purdue.edu
Wed Apr 24 12:59:33 EDT 2013


On 04/24/2013 12:37 PM, Zhen Shen wrote:
>
> Oh, and speaking of "exact" arithmetic, I thought that was impossible 
> cause digital computers cant store reals?

Computers can work with the computable reals if you like.


> Now, doing (declare (flonum)) at the top level, does this stop gambit 
> from boxing flonums across function calls?

No.  Gambit keeps flonums unboxed inside a basic block, whenever there's 
a jump (or the possibility of a jump), Gambit boxes up all the 
still-needed flonums.

Brad



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