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Re: Harlequin 1.2 still available?
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:30:02 -0400 (EDT), Hugh Greene <q@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
wrote:
> There may also be a
> little extra work for arithmetic (e.g., masking out the tag bits
> beforehand, then ORing them back in afterwards -- I'm not a low-level
> compiler guy :-)
Sometimes representations use 'zero' as the tag for integers so that arithmetic
can be done without so much taggery.
__Jason
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