would this result in evolving how vector/array indexing works internally to using Words rather than Ints?


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj@microsoft.com> wrote:

| > One thought is that the profiling word appears just *before* the start
| of a heap object, so that might need a negative offset, but it seems like
| a rather special case.
|
| Hmmm... the profiling word is the second word of the object, after the
| info pointer.

Oh, OK, I'm mis-remembering that; apols.

Simon
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