On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 13:49, Yitzhak Mandelbaum
<yitzhakm@cs.princeton.edu> wrote:
> Does anyone know whether float arrays/records are unboxed if float is used
> to instantiate a  type parameter? E.g.
[snip]

Since functor applications are currently not inlined, the generated
code for the functor body has no way of seeing that its dealing with
an all-floats record.  Hence the record will contain boxed floats.

> Is M.foo an unboxed array of floats (as per Chapter 18.3.2 in the manual) or
> not? Empirical evidence suggests that the floats *are* boxed. If this is the
> case, can anyone point me to where this feature is documented?

I don't think this is documented anywhere, since this is an
implementation detail that (though unlikely) might even change in the
future.

Regards,
Markus

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