[Haskell] Re: Boxing (Day) Question

[Taral]

On 12/26/05, Ashley Yakeley <ashley at semantic.org> wrote:
> I thought functions receive dictionaries, rather than dictionaries being
> stored inside values? For instance:
>
>   class C (x :: #4) where ...
>
>   foo :: (C x) => x -> Bool
>   foo x = ...
>
> might be generate something like this:
>
>   HsBool foo (CDict dict,int32 x) { ... }

Just a strange thought, but what about...

foo :: x# -> ...
=>
... foo (void *x, ...) { ... }

Just because it's unboxed doesn't mean it isn't in memory...

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