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Language design with Leo White

Signals and Threads

CHAPTER

O'Kammel - A Low Level Language

O'Kammel has a bunch of lovely abstractions and then an almost brutally simple way of representing those on the heap. You get very little choice in how memory layout works, that's in some ways nice. But it means that it's sometimes grotesquely more expensive than it should be. So we're looking at fixing that aspect with unbox types.

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