Hello,
A few weeks ago I was thinking about the strange situation with Yhc's
numeric primitives. Some of them are in the bytecode set, and some
are handled through the FFI (at least I think that's what's
happening). Thinking about it led me to decide it would be better to
somehow represent all the numeric primitives as bytecode operations.
So, I wrote up a proposal. Anyone who is interested can check it out
at:
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Image:Num-bytecodes.txt
The ideas are about 3/4 baked (which is to say, somewhat more than
half-baked ;-) ) I think the integer stuff is pretty good, and the
floating point is OK. I'm less sure about the pointer stuff. At any
rate, I thought I'd share the proposal so it doesn't become
completely lost in the dark recesses of my home directory.
Rob Dockins
Speak softly and drive a Sherman tank.
Laugh hard; it's a long way to the bank.
-- TMBG
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