Peter S. Housel

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`#e` is from Gwydion, representing `` (bignums), and is (I think) representing a `` in this case.

We can generate a new sequence of primes, but what do you think would be a reasonable limit? 5.0e8?

The paper doesn't mention it, but I think it would make sense to unroll loops that contain dynamic dispatch once so that remaining iterations could take advantage of post-facto type...

The `os` command redirects the output of the child process to a pipe so that it can use the environment's regular `message` output. This allows the output to go to...

See additional background at https://gitter.im/dylan-lang/general?at=632a097611a6a83d04c448cd

Yes, I made note of this in the dylan-lang/general chat on 2019-11-01. Some, but not all, of the entry point code (in both C and LLVM back-ends) check for invalid...

FWIW, `read-text-into!` is going away on my unicode-support branch, since it makes use of mutable strings.

I'm pretty much waiting for https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc to progress further before attempting to pursue this.

- Peter S. Housel @housel May 01 11:00 I think it was Bruce Hoult who pointed out that having a single `` class would save a lot on dispatch So...

Code points can be represented by a 2-bit tag + 21-bit code point index. There is no standard canonical encoding of extended grapheme clusters, and not all of them can...