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From: David Monniaux <David.Monniaux@ens.fr>
To: Alain Frisch <frisch@clipper.ens.fr>
Cc: Liste CAML <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: Ocaml Machine (was Re: speed versus C)
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:32:35 +0200 (MET DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.03.9910121731350.313-100000@basilic.ens.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.04.9910121630590.6673-100000@clipper>

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Alain Frisch wrote:
> Yes, I was thinking about modifying an existing chip. For instance, adding
> a tag bit to every machine word should not be so difficult.

This is so true that the Sparc architecture already supports tagged
arithmetic (with two bits of tag per word, if I remember well).

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-10-13  6:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-10-03 21:35 speed versus C Jan Brosius
1999-10-04 21:59 ` skaller
1999-10-05 23:22   ` chet
1999-10-06 10:22     ` skaller
1999-10-05 20:20 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-06 15:21   ` William Chesters
1999-10-06 22:49     ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-07 10:26       ` Michel Quercia
1999-10-07 10:46       ` William Chesters
1999-10-07 15:48         ` Pierre Weis
1999-10-07 19:21         ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-08  0:26           ` William Chesters
1999-10-10 16:27             ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-10 20:48               ` William Chesters
1999-10-10 23:54                 ` Alain Frisch
1999-10-11 17:58                   ` William Chesters
1999-10-12 14:36                     ` Ocaml Machine (was Re: speed versus C) Alain Frisch
1999-10-12 15:32                       ` David Monniaux [this message]
1999-10-12 15:42                         ` Alain Frisch
1999-10-11 19:32                   ` speed versus C John Prevost
1999-10-11 20:50                 ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-12 20:07                   ` skaller
1999-10-08  9:56           ` Pierre Weis
1999-10-07 15:25     ` Markus Mottl
1999-10-07  6:56   ` skaller
1999-10-07 12:37     ` Xavier Urbain
1999-10-07 22:18     ` Gerd Stolpmann
1999-10-08 19:15       ` skaller
1999-10-08 13:40   ` Anton Moscal
1999-10-06  7:58 ` Reply to: " Jens Olsson
1999-10-13 13:44 OCaml machine (was: Re: speed versus C) Juergen Pfitzenmaier

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