From: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>
To: Berke Durak <durak@liafa.jussieu.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] boxing of floats in records/classes
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:04:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020927110436.B2356@pauillac.inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020926111447.GA8887@liafa.jussieu.fr>; from durak@liafa.jussieu.fr on Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:14:47PM +0200
> Would it then be false to assume that if you have many floats in a record,
> grouping them into a subrecord would reduce the boxing overhead ?
This is true, even if you have as little as two float fields.
However, there would be some overhead when accessing one of these
fields, in the case where you need the field value to remain boxed
(i.e. to pass it to a Caml function). Also, this appraoch sure would
not simplify the compiler :-)
- Xavier Leroy
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-25 2:30 Michael Vanier
2002-09-26 8:01 ` Xavier Leroy
2002-09-26 11:14 ` Berke Durak
2002-09-27 9:04 ` Xavier Leroy [this message]
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