Re: [Haskell-cafe] compressed pointers?

jhc packs data into pointers when possible. so for instance data Foo = Foo !Word16 !Word32 gets encoded as ------------------------------- | 16 bits | 32 bits | ... | 10| ------------------------------- This particularly helps strings, where the character can often be encoded in the space of the pointer itself. (even on 32 bit architecturs, as Char is only 24 bits in jhc) John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈