Boxed versus Unboxed

[Thomas Johnsson]

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