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Unbox small Integers #1

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Ralith opened this issue Aug 26, 2014 · 0 comments
Open

Unbox small Integers #1

Ralith opened this issue Aug 26, 2014 · 0 comments

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Ralith commented Aug 26, 2014

Integer performance is presently quite slow because all values of Integer type are full heap-allocated boxed GMP integers. The standard optimization to use tagged pointers to unbox small integers should be applied. Due to the Nat -> Integer optimization Idris performs, this should improve general performance substantially.
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