Yes, the bitmap structures used to encode the structure of stack
frames. These *look* like they might be reusable for mix-and-match
arrays in Haskell-land. If so, that could be a pretty cheap new
feature.
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 1:37 PM Ben Gamari wrote:
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> David Feuer writes:
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> > It appears
David Feuer writes:
> It appears that the RTS has more flexibility in its array representations
> than users can access through primops. In particular, there are
> "pointers-first" and "bitmapped" arrays. Are these used for the evaluation
> stack or something? I'd be very interested in getting
It appears that the RTS has more flexibility in its array representations
than users can access through primops. In particular, there are
"pointers-first" and "bitmapped" arrays. Are these used for the evaluation
stack or something? I'd be very interested in getting user access to some
of this