From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2008-12-09T23:31:39+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:20441] Re: Leave my open classes alone (was Behavior: autoload calls rb_require()  directly)

On Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:21:39 +0900, SASADA Koichi wrote:

> Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote::
>> Ko1 once experimented making float values immediate on 64bit systems.
>> It improved performance, but as far as I know it's not production
>> ready, besides that most of the systems out are still 32bit.
> 
> To be precise, most of Desktop OSs are 32bit.  But 64bit CPU and OSs are
> common for Server, HPC and so on.

Even so, where would you get space for the tag from? Ruby's documentation 
says that a "Float objects represent real numbers using the native 
architecture���s double-precision floating point representation," and a 
double is 64 bits on most 32- and 64-bit operating systems.



-- 
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/