Am 21.07.2011 um 15:22 schrieb Thomas Davie: > Hey, > > I wondered if you guys had seen the fun and games that apple have been having > abusing the last bit of pointers to make boxing and unboxing NSNumbers (and > some others) much much faster… > > http://objectivistc.tumblr.com/post/7872364181/tagged-pointers-and-fast-pathed-cfnumber-integers-in
Nice idea. I hope they have not tried to patent it. Here is some prior art: "DYNAMIC MEMORY MANAGEMENT FOR APL-LIKE LANGUAGES", Rodnay Zaks, Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France, Proceedings of ACM SIGPLAN-SIGMICRO Interface Meeting, Arden House, New York, May 30-June 1, 1973. Even older than Apple, Inc. :) -- hns _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
