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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] [CHICKEN 5] Change numerics representation
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felix . winkelmann |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] [CHICKEN 5] Change numerics representations |
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Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:00:12 +0200 |
> > A somewhat disturbing patch, but it does indeed simplify the
> > code.
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> What's disturbing? The huge amount of changes?
So many hardcoded numbers, easy to get things wrong.
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> > Having only one type bit lefft worries me a bit, though.
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> We could still get rid of the tagged pointer type. After some more
> thought on the matter, I believe they're mostly worthless.
"They" means tagged pointers? I agree.
felix