Subject: Re: Storing, accessing type information at run time
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1999/07/08
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <7m2152$79crf@fido.engr.sgi.com>
<xenophon@irtnog.org> wrote:
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| Since I know relatively little about run-time type systems, would
| anyone point me to the relevant literature...
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Go to http://www.cs.indiana.edu/scheme-repository/doc.publications.html
and you'll find lots of interesting papers, in particular:

	- Gudeman. "Representing Type Information in Dynamically Typed
	  Languages." (typeinfo.ps.gz) 

contains a nearly exhaustive survey of run-time type representations.


-Rob

p.s. If you're not already familiar with the "big bag of pages" method,
be sure and read:

	- Dybvig, Eby, and Bruggeman. "Don't Stop the BIBOP: Flexible and
	  Efficient Storage Management for Dynamically Typed Languages",
	  Indiana University, March 1994. (iucstr400.ps.gz) 

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