From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA24561; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:56:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA22740 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:55:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from indyio.rz.uni-saarland.de (indyio.rz.uni-saarland.de [134.96.7.3]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h328tw500806 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:55:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from uni-sb.de (uni-sb.de [134.96.7.230]) by indyio.rz.uni-saarland.de (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA1382422 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:55:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cs.uni-sb.de (cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.252.31]) by uni-sb.de (8.12.9/2003020700) with ESMTP id h328tvm6019861 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:55:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.cs.uni-sb.de (mail.cs.uni-sb.de [134.96.254.200]) by cs.uni-sb.de (8.12.9/2003020700) with ESMTP id h328tuBY002822 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:55:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ps.uni-sb.de (grizzly.ps.uni-sb.de [134.96.186.68]) by mail.cs.uni-sb.de (8.12.9/2003020700) with ESMTP id h328ttrh013934 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:55:55 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: email: Host grizzly.ps.uni-sb.de [134.96.186.68] claimed to be ps.uni-sb.de Received: from ps.uni-sb.de (zoidberg.ps.uni-sb.de [134.96.186.121]) by ps.uni-sb.de (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id h328ttV06714; Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:55:55 +0200 Message-ID: <3E8AA59B.6040008@ps.uni-sb.de> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 10:55:55 +0200 From: Andreas Rossberg User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Bug? Printf, %X and negative numbers References: <6A2DCA04-6476-11D7-848D-000393863F70@exomi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; rossberg:01 uni-sb:01 caml-list:01 bug:01 printf:01 pointers:01 incompatible:01 darkened:01 munching:01 repetitive:01 kristian:01 polymorphic:01 listening:02 pointer:03 affected:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk 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 -- Andreas Rossberg, rossberg@ps.uni-sb.de "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we would all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills, and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo Inc. ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners