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Discussion about functional languages.
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Call for Papers Reminder: The First Scala Workshop - Scala Days 2010
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The First Scala Workshop ======================== Call for Papers --------------- Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. This workshop is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share... more »
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Density of duplicate references in the heap
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I took an odd design decision with HLVM and made references a struct of run-time type, metadata (e.g. array length), pointer to mark state and pointer to data. So every reference consumes 4x32=128 bits rather than the usual 32 bits but heap-allocated values no longer require a header. My performance results really surprised me. For example, the "gc" benchmark... more »
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season's greetings from Lambda Associates
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I have recently returned from India where I spent a month in the mountains practising yoga and meditation. Unfortunately, during that time, Lambda Associates went down due to, what looks like, a software glitch from my provider :(. My geographical position did not enable me to fix this until I returned to the UK. The site is now up again.... more »
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Fat references
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I've been working on a project called HLVM in my spare time: [link] One goal was to have fast interop with C, so I didn't want to copy the traditional style of placing a header with GC metadata before every value in the heap because that would require C arrays to be copied just to add... more »
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