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Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit acae7a5] svm: Port to 64 bit words.


From: Taylor R Campbell
Subject: Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] [commit acae7a5] svm: Port to 64 bit words.
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 19:15:05 +0000
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[I have been too busy to follow many changes over the past several
months; maybe I will eventually get to reviewing all the changes I
missed...]

   commit acae7a59dadc87832ac9982ff2d7b40cb37eefa5
   Author: Matt Birkholz <address@hidden>
   Date:   Wed Feb 29 12:36:48 2012 -0700

    svm: Port to 64 bit words.

   -(define-integrable scheme-object-width 32) ;could be 64 too
   +(define-integrable scheme-object-width (if (fix:fixnum? #x100000000) 64 32))

We should be reducing, not increasing, the compiler's dependence on
the system characteristics of the host Scheme in which it runs.

I haven't looked closely at SVM in a while.  Is the compiled code
dependent on the word size of the physical machine that executes it?
If so, why, and can I persuade the compiler to generate 32-bit or
64-bit SVM code independent of whether the compiler's host is a 32-bit
or 64-bit machine?



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