holger krekel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Re-Hi! 
>
> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 21:53 +0100, Armin Rigo wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 09:43:26PM +0100, holger krekel wrote:
>> > Good point which i indeed had forgotten about.  Also regarding GCs 
>> > it is higher level than C.  So probably we need oo + part-of-lltypes :)
>> 
>> You keep inserting lltype here -- probably just out of our
>> well-established habit of loving confusion :-)  ootype contains
>> lltype-ish aspects of its own, because all OO target languages that we
>> have in mind need these aspects.  There is nothing special about IL --
>> certainly not anything that would make it different than C#, as far as I
>> can tell.
>
> didn't intend to doubt the latter.  But I guess i need to
> refresh/improve my knowledge of ootypes. 

A particular, relevant fact here is that the ootypesystem and the
lltypesystem are not disjoint -- they share at least the Primitives,
which is to say the representations of integers, floats, etc.

Cheers,
mwh

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