Re: Boxed versus Unboxed

Hal Daume III writes:

data Int = Int Int#

You can get more information that you really want from SPJ's paper "Implementing lazy functional languages on stock hardware: the Spineless Tagless G-machine" which talks about this issue.

SPJ's paper "unboxed values as first class citizens" is more specifically about this subject, see http://research.microsoft.com/users/simonpj/Papers/papers.html#compiler . -- Thomas