Lecture

Values Representation: Tagging and Boxing

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This lecture discusses improving the translation process by addressing issues such as useless continuations and suboptimal conditionals. It introduces different translations based on the source context, including non-tail, tail, and cond translations. The lecture also covers the representation of values in the target language, exploring techniques like boxing, tagging, and on-demand boxing. Specialization and partial specialization are presented as solutions to optimize performance, along with examples of tagged integer arithmetic.

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