Re: [Squeak-VMdev] Versiojn 4 changes

[Tim R. <ti...@su...>]

In message <805...@in...>
          Ian Piumarta <ian...@in...> wrote:

> On 08 Apr 2004, at 21:46, Bryce Kampjes wrote:
> 
> > This sequence is possible if we change from integers having tag 1 to
> > integers having tag 0 leaving the tag in the lower bits. The Self
> > community wrote some nice papers on tagging and high performance
> > simple garbage collection.
> 
> Teeny reminder (which may be irrelevant): Itanium cannot add -1 into an 
> effective address without introducing an additional add instruction and 
> stop bit (!) before each ld/st insn.
And at umpty-eleven gazillion gigglehertz, do we care? Besides, itanium
is actually Itanic and is about to sink into the deep.

tim
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