On Sunday 08 November 2009 19:39:03 Brian Hurt wrote:
> Fixing this would require a major rearchitecting and rewrite of not only
> the compiler, but also the garbage collector, the run time, and all the C
> bindings that have been written.

If you're willing to endure a whole program optimization pass then you can 
avoid having to touch the GC and run-time by monomorphizing the code, e.g. 
converting all tuples into monomorphic record types.

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