[info-mcl] digitool (MCL) / clozure (OpenMCL)

[Raffael Cavallaro]

On Oct 10, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Lawrence E. Bakst wrote:

> For example I think you need to have a way to allocate floating  
> point vectors in a non moving heap so they don't have to be copied.  
> If anyone is wondering, my motivation is OpenGL, where you often  
> need to pass a vectors of 4 or 16 float numbers. It needs to work  
> for float and doubles.
>
> 4. I would like to see the compiler improved. In particular, I would  
> like to see math be faster, especially floating point math.

I would like to second these requests - being able to do reasonably  
fast floating point math on data allocated in a static region would be  
quite useful for graphics applications in general.

regards,

Ralph



Raffael Cavallaro, Ph.D.
raffaelcavallaro at mac.com