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For those who like me aren't familiar with the concept of "float boxing", I think this is the same thing: https://www.lexifi.com/ocaml/unboxed-floats-ocaml/ htt

by simias 6y ago

For those who like me aren't familiar with the concept of "float boxing", I think this is the same thing: https://www.lexifi.com/ocaml/unboxed-floats-ocaml/ https://www.lexifi.com/ocaml/unboxed-floats-ocaml/ Basically if I understand correctly this removes an indirection when using floats, probably reducing the memory footprint and improving performance.

bjoli 6y ago
For computations using a lot of float arithmetic it removes boxing and unboxing. Say: (fl+ (fl* f1 f2) (fl* fl3 fl4)). This has to unbox fl1 fl2 fl3 and fl4, but racket 7.7 immediately boxes the result of fl* only to unbox it again for fl+. This new racket does not.