Re: [Caml-list] Bug? Printf, %X and negative numbers

[Andreas Rossberg <rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de>]

Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote:
> 
> One way of doing this much faster is just having a the first word of any 
> mixed block (homogenous blocks aren't a problem) indicate the number of 
> pointers and always put the pointers first.

I'm afraid such a scheme is incompatible with polymorphism, where a slot 
may or may not be a pointer, depending on the actual instantiation. 
Still, polymorphic code must be able to operate uniformingly in both 
cases, i.e. the slot may not be shuffled around.

   - Andreas

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