From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: on coding a portable R6RS package supporting Guile and its FFI
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:52:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pq0aola7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87liayzxb5.fsf@pobox.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:37:18 +0100")
Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> skribis:
> On Fri 08 Feb 2013 15:10, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>>> GC_malloc still returns eight-byte aligned memory hunks on 64-bit, no?
>>
>> Oh right:
>
> Does it? I couldn't tell from your test. I'm not a native unfolder :)
Yes, it’s always eight-byte aligned (even on 32-bit IIRC), and often
16-byte aligned.
>> And with 16 cases, we could even put single-precision floats in a word,
>> chars, and who knows what!
>
> Chars are already immediate :)
Right, well, strings then! ;-)
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-08 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-17 10:53 on coding a portable R6RS package supporting Guile and its FFI Marco Maggi
2013-01-27 15:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-28 3:00 ` Daniel Hartwig
2013-02-05 17:38 ` Andy Wingo
2013-02-05 19:29 ` Noah Lavine
2013-02-06 8:36 ` Andy Wingo
2013-02-06 13:25 ` Noah Lavine
2013-02-05 22:31 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-02-06 10:57 ` Andy Wingo
2013-02-08 14:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-02-08 14:37 ` Andy Wingo
2013-02-08 15:52 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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