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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] concurrent gc?

On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:01:22 +0200
Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de> wrote:

> The issue talks about arrays and xleroy mentioned that the magic that
> is used to tag float arrays as such does not extend to e.g int arrays
> and therefore, since it needs to be a runtime thing, special tagging
> won't work there. Seems ther is only one big con.

The "pro" is the noticeable speedup, see the link in the issue.

I wonder whether modifying caml_compare to not distinguish 0 and "noscan" tag would be worthwhile..