Re: Unboxed structures (yes, again, only this time for real)

"Yuri Davidovsky (as work at disclosure dot ie)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On 16 Jan 2026, at 19:24, Martin Simmons <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Your code uses single-float where the 32-bits of data are hidden in the 64-bit
> pointer, not allocated on the heap.  You should see a difference if you make
> it use double-float.

Yep, we have figured it out already. There appears to be confusion sometimes in relation to immediate/boxed in discussions where it is not always clear if “boxed” means located on the heap, or simply a tagged pointer.

> I wouldn't trust any timings that are less than a few seconds.  This is
> especially true on hardware where the clock speed varies according to CPU
> usage (hence the same code runs more slowly until the speed has ramped up).

Hm, I was actually having some issue with this testing code where the results suddenly started fluctuating wildly, sometime 3x per run. Could not figure it out, I wonder if it could be the clock speed indeed.

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