[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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