6 Sep
2007
6 Sep
'07
11:38 a.m.
Ketil Malde wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 20:37 +0200, Henning Thielemann wrote:
Can someone explain me, why there are arrays with mutable but boxed elements?
I, on the other hand, have always wondered why the strict arrays are called "unboxed", rather than, well, "strict"? Strictness seems to be their observable property, while unboxing is just an (admittedly important) implementation optimization. I imagine that it'd be at least as easy to implement the strictness as the unboxedness for non-GHC compilers, and thus increase compatibility.
You're quite right, that was a mistake, we should have called them strict arrays. Hugs implements the unboxed arrays without any kind of unboxing, I believe. Cheers, Simon