On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Neil Toronto <neil.toro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Compatibility with C code? Why not have the FFI convert them? > > Save space? I can see that. It won't help much if they're sent to math > library functions, though. Those will convert them to flonums and usually > box the converted values.
I think these are big deals with respect to libraries that you deliver large float matrices to where you want to efficiently store a big f32vector rather than an f64vector. Examples of this include OpenGL where vector coordinates, colors, etc are typically floats and not doubles. Jay -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________ Racket Developers list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/dev
