Unique all characters?
nicolas cellier
ncellier at ifrance.com
Tue Jan 29 22:11:21 UTC 2008
Andreas Raab a écrit :
> nicolas cellier wrote:
>> But we do not need to reserve two tag bits for every case:
>>
>> xxx..xxx1 is a SmallInteger on 31 bits
>> xxx..xx10 is a Character
>> xxx..xx00 is an OOP
>>
>> This does not put pressure on integer
>
> You may want to read this post:
>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2006-January/000429.html
Yes thanks
>
> It outlines a similar approach except that it adds 64 immediate classes
> instead of one and in return reduces the number of available bits to 24
> (which makes for nice 1x24, 2x12, 3x8, 4x6 usage patterns in characters,
> immediate points, short colors etc)
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>
>
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