[racket-dev] flonum vs. inexact-real

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 3 07:35:54 EDT 2010

At Sat, 2 Oct 2010 13:52:40 -0500, Robby Findler wrote:
> Is there any value to, on a 64 bit machine, having 32 bit floats be
> immediate values to avoid boxing?

Sounds plausible. Distinguishing `flonum' from `inexact-real?' would
let us try the experiment more easily.



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